Where is Margie?

[just_me_karen]

Where is Australia's First Lady? I'm worried she appears to be missing and failing in her responsibilities.

There is nothing in the news about her.

No google image results from 2014

Nothing on her bio page



Does anyone know where she is?

[*mrgrizz*]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
If that's her preferred charity, why not?

You prefer her to waste the opportunity and do nothing for the Australian community?

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not your decision to make

[cherry*135]

It is 2014 now, not 1960 ( thats to anyone who thinks a partner of a PM should do lunch and charitable works, instead of running their own business)

[green.fields]

Yes who cares where she is, as already said he was elected to public office, not her. Also, some people prefer to stay out of the limelight, maybe she is one of them.

[cherry*135]

I think she is roserobin, a private person that is. She entered Teachers College (NZ) at 16. Educating children is her field of interest.

[freddie*rooster]

I actually like Margie.

[azureline**]

I always get her and Mrs Newman mixed up.

[cherry*135]

This one? (lol)

[just_me_karen]

I did not say it was my decision to make. I expressed my valid opinion that the wife of our PM should be doing good for the Australian community...just as every other PM spouse has done...in fact, every leader's spouse in every democratic country.

Her decision to stay at work (if indeed she has) could present a conflict of interest and I'm asking why she hasn't taken advantage of this unique opportunity.

- is she selfish? I doubt that, given she grew up in a labor family.

- has tony banned her? Or Peta?

- or is the social media gossip true and this is the deal she has made, given this is probably the first time in her marriage that she has held the balance of power.

I believe the gossip. I suppose I'll just have to wait for the memoirs to learn the truth.

[cherry*135]

It is my valid opinion and others have expressed the same, in this thread that Margie Abbott can work in her own business as the PM's partner if she wants to.

..just as every other PM spouse has done...in fact, every leader's spouse in every democratic country. Another broad statement, without any details.

[cherry*135]

Bronagh Key decided a long time ago she didn’t want to be a public figure. It’s a hard trick to pull off when you’re married to the prime minister of New Zealand, but she’s done it. And it’s not, as many people believe, because she is a shy and retiring flower. on the contrary, the woman sitting next to her husband in the mildly chaotic family kitchen overlooking their pool is funny, open and thoughtful.

“I’ve got more used to being in the public eye,” says Bronagh. “But it’s quite a challenge to go into a room filled with a couple of hundred people. I prefer to do my own thing.”

“I get lots of requests to do lots of things,” says Bronagh, who is involved in numerous charity projects that go under the radar. But anything she does takes second place to her main priority. “I will do things if they can happen during the day when the kids are at school. I’ve got to be home at the end of the day when Max  gets home and that’s my job at the moment.”