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The Problem with Woke Women and Wimpy Men
Matt Kean didn’t see the light in sacking Malcolm Turnbull before he’d begun his climate gig. He saw outrage among lots of (yet to be re-educated) Liberal voters. Kean belongs to the green-left of the Liberal Party. The Libs have a green-left faction? Perhaps not too long ago they didn’t. They do now. My local federal member, Trent Zimmerman, is among their number. Of course, excepting the odd holdout, the modern Labor Party is far gone.
I intend to vote for the Nationals as my new default. It is a question of voting for a mainstream party which is best holding out from going woke. Unfortunately, the Nats are tied to the Libs so eventually the whole lot of them will drift woke-wards and I will vote informal or maybe for Pauline Hanson’s or Fred Nile’s lot.
Take Cristina Talacko, the vice-president of the NSW Liberal Women’s Council. (Who’s the vice-president of the counterpart men’s council, I wonder?) She had a recent piece in The Australian arguing for…
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