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Flat White

The tired old gender agenda

31 May 2017

7:17 AM

31 May 2017

7:17 AM

A gloating headline this week has spoken so many volumes about gender politics it’s not even comical.

Treasury did not model Australian budget’s impact on women, screeches The Guardian Australia.

Let’s pause right there, just for a moment.

Imagine, for one split second, we’d actually achieved equality.

Imagine what politics would look like if the omnipresent chuckling strand of gender hadn’t craftily knitted itself into cosy the government shawl.

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