From Michael: "you mock Hariri for appointing a man as Minister for Women. Here in sunny Western democratic Australia, our (former, male) Prime Minister appointed himself Minister for Women. It was an actual thing debated, with regular entreaties from the left for the Minister for Women to be a woman. To add injury to insult, Tony Abbott had a long, long record of sexist comments.
sample of the ongoing progressive calls for a female Minister for Women"
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-view/2013/09/five-reasons-tony-abbott-shouldnt-be-womens-minister
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/rendezview/its-time-for-tony-abbott-to-fire-himself-as-the-minister-for-women/news-story/0e18cb23efcb255586c23c4063094b81
http://greens.org.au/magazine/national/why-tony-abbott-should-resign-minister-women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/lisawilkinson/dear-mr-abbott-its-time-to-stand-down-as-the-minister-for-wome/
sample of the ongoing progressive calls for a female Minister for Women"
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-view/2013/09/five-reasons-tony-abbott-shouldnt-be-womens-minister
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/rendezview/its-time-for-tony-abbott-to-fire-himself-as-the-minister-for-women/news-story/0e18cb23efcb255586c23c4063094b81
http://greens.org.au/magazine/national/why-tony-abbott-should-resign-minister-women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/lisawilkinson/dear-mr-abbott-its-time-to-stand-down-as-the-minister-for-wome/
