[Oe List ...] Aussies, catch us up

[frank bremner]

Gday folks!

 

It means that Tasmania (I think I'm correct here) is the only Australian state or territory which has not had a female governor, premier, or leader of the opposition.  Currently South Australia has a female leader of the opposition.  In the past Western Australia and Victoria have had female premiers, and the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have had female heads of government.  And Queensland has a female premier.

 

BTW: Julia Gillard went to Unley High School, in Netherby, an Adelaide suburb, and the almer mater of numerous (ahem!) interesting people.

 

Cheers

 

Frank Bremner 


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:30:49 +0100
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
From: dmtmsn at language.eclipse.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Aussies, catch us up

I'm glad colleagues down under responded to the sense of George's enquiry, rather than my smart-ass comments about Wales...

I hope we can hear more about Julia Gillard, and what she is likely to do in due course.

Love to all,

Adam in Dover UK

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At 23:23 24/06/2010, you wrote:

Hello colleagues

Yes, yesterday was an historic day in Oz with Julia Gillard becoming Prime Minister.
We now have a woman, Quentin Bryce, as Govenor General, and Julia as PM.
And in New South Wales we have a woman, Marie Bashir as State Govenor,
and a woman, Kristina Keneally (born in the US) as State Premier, and a woman, Clover Moore as Mayor of Sydney. 

Wow - not sure what all this means except that the 'glass ceiling' seems to have been well and truly shattered.
Still have a way to go with respect to equal pay for equal work etc.

We woke up yesterday morning to the news that overnight there had been moves within the Labour party to replace Kevin Rudd with Julia - a couple of recent policy changes, such as deferring legislation to introduce an emissions trading scheme, plus a couple of stuff-ups on a couple of programs rolled out by the government and an ongoing stoush between the government and mining companies over a proposed 'super profits' tax, had triggered a large drop in support for the government in 'opinion polls'. With a national election to be held sometime later this year I think the 'back room' boys got frightened and decided to move - Kevin has never had a power base within the party which is unusual - he is a loner and his style of leadership reflected that - he is more a manager - certainly not a 'facilitative leader' and sooner or later the other people in the party are going to get tired of not being consulted.

Anyway there are as many opinions as people on why he was dumped.

Hope this throws a bit of light on the situation.

Take care

John Telford
 
2010/6/24 George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net >


Aussie colleagues, I understand from the BBC that you now have the first woman PM, Ms. Julia Gillard, and she was born in Wales, England.  What's up?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10393918.stm


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