equal rights administration

cabinet government

A majority of the men's legislature of an equal rights parliament elects half the leadership group and a majority of the women's legislature elects the other half.

The leadership group elects the nation's leaders.

critical mass

In the global transition from patriarchy to equal rights some forty women have held high political office over the past half century while a third of seats occupied by women in a legislature is considered a critical mass to achieve a women's voice.

Governance conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees completes the transition.

fair go

A male culture stonewalled government, collapsed the global economy, prosecutes war globally, obstructs women from senior management and is polluting the environment irrecoverably.

Men led the fight for freedom but don't practice what they preach.

Fair go means a fair go for women also.

fair inclusion

The United States has passed a law requiring fair inclusion of women in the finance industry as Australians go to an election with a choice.

The incumbent introduced fair inclusion in party representation years ago which has produced the nation's first woman Prime Minister now seeking confirmation by public vote, the challenger has no policy on fair inclusion.

Is 2010 a fair inclusion election or will male privilege prevail?

men did it

In the boardroom of the corporation responsible for the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico the Chairman and Chief Executive are men, the four Executive Directors are men, six of the eight non-executive Directors are men and eight of the nine members of the Executive Management Team are men.

If BP or any other corporation wants to do business in Australia or anywhere else the boardroom should be comprised of equal numbers of women and men appointed by stockholder majorities of women and men.

The world is fed up with having to clean up the mess men who need to control women create.

uranium

The High Court of Australia conceded first peoples native title providing sufficient attachment survives after Torres Strait Island man Eddie Mabo took the government to court and won.

Only the men's jurisdiction conceded ownership because there's no women's legislature with Australia's constitution.

Australia's first peoples are just as concerned about what's done with their uranium as everybody else and should be able to negotiate in the women's jurisdiction as well as the men's as they've always done.

prism

Every economic system distorts through the prism of male privilege, whether it be capitalism in the USA, socialism in Stalinist Russia or communism in Kampuchea.

The optimum economic system is the one to which women's and men's corporate committees agree.

witness

A visitor to the parliament of an equal rights republic takes a seat in the public gallery of the women's legislature to bear witness to democracy.

The legislature is debating a proposal from a cabinet of equal numbers of women and men which with a majority with the men's legislature becomes law.

peace on Earth

Australia has welcomed the establishment of the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as 'UN Women'.

Global governance conducted by agreement between UN Women and the already assembled UN Men will bring sustainable prosperity and everlasting world peace.

recognition

The Hindmarsh Island controversy proved the Commonwealth of Australia could not distinguish a women's jurisdiction when the High Court recognised a men's jurisdiction with the Mabo decision granting native title.

A republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees recognises a women's jurisdiction.

equal rights republic

If Australians are fair dinkum about a republic a referendum on an equal rights republic with governance conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees would receive overwhelming support this weekend because there's hardly anyone left in Australia who doesn't support equal rights between women and men.

It's incredibly unlikely the parliament will need to resort to removing all women members and prohibiting women the vote to highlight the Constitution's inadequacy, although the trigger remains in an arsenal of approaches from power to pay which evidence inequality. Three decades after sex discrimination laws were enacted the level of sexual violence against women has remained exactly the same, corresponding with the level of sexual violence men experience in prison. Why, because Australia's principal instrument of governance confers male privilege which when abused can't be overcome by legislation enacted under its authority. Same with corporate governance, same with the value of work, same with reconciling the women's jurisdiction of Australia's first peoples, same with racism because if relations between women and men are inequitable relations between demographics which comprise women and men are inequitable.

The men who established Australia's legislatures never intended they would be anything other than men's legislatures to which women are admitted under supervision. Women would have to wait until they gained sufficient experience before they could have legislatures of their own. Sufficient is the present, the tipping point has been reached, the roles Governor-General, Judge of the High Court and Prime Minister achieved, the republic is at hand, a republic to set a standard of equality for all nations.

ingenuous

Men discriminate against women because women are different then claim because women can do what men do women are the same.

A republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees is genuine same.

integrity

A majority of the parliament can rescind the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 with the effect of removing all women members including a woman Prime Minister.

A Prime Minister should have greater security of tenure than removal by reason of her gender.

The solution is governance conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees with conjoint male and female Prime Ministers.

well-being

The intervention most urgently required to safeguard Australia's first peoples is with government to recognise a women's jurisdiction.

Government conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees secures the future for all Australians.

ready

The men who established Australia's legislatures never intended they would be anything other than men's legislatures to which women are admitted under male supervision.

Women would have to wait until they gained sufficient experience before they could have legislatures of their own.

Sufficient is the present.

catch up

Apart from power and pay all Australian women have the opportunity to experience equality with men the women of the nation's first peoples command in tradition.

All that remains is to reform the instruments of governance to include women's legislatures, courts and corporate committees.

excellence

The collective genius men once delivered is dissolving in competition for female attention.

Parliaments stall and corporations struggle while militant groups hold the world to ransom.

Equal rights governance recovers male sensibilities in men's legislatures and committees prior to negotiation with women in cabinets and on boards of directors.

Both women and men perform at a premium when ideas are workshopped independently before conferencing together.

now

Enough people in Australia support equality between women and men to achieve the declaration of a Republic of Australia with the consent of a referendum conducted this weekend.

An equal rights republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees is the only genuine basis from which a treaty with Australia's First Peoples can proceed.

 

now

Enough people in Australia support equality between women and men to achieve the declaration of a Republic of Australia with the consent of a referendum conducted this weekend.

An equal rights republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees is the only genuine basis from which a treaty with Australia's First Peoples can proceed.

 

closing the gap

Closing the gap with Australia's first peoples is about updating governance.

The magic bullet is women's rights from which all else proceeds while readiness and attendance is achieved with parliament and corporate management conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures and committees.

'Men never used to boss over the women, the women are their own bosses.'

customary law

Australia's first peoples celebrate a tradition of secret and non-secret women's and men's business in which women exclude men from some ceremonies as do the men with women.

Secrecy preserves the integrity of law and mixed ceremony maintains harmony while penalties may be harsh in marginal ecologies to safeguard survival.

Confidentiality remains with penalties less severe when tradition is practiced in the contemporary context of parliament and corporate governance conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and committees.

posturing

With increasing numbers of women in parliament men have become emboldened to oppose with macho displays of willful obstruction.

Stonewalling would cease if women had their own legislature.

the real deal

A majority of the world’s democracies have a women's caucus to offer advice.

A parliament enacting law by agreement between women's and men's legislatures converts advice to authority.

quotas

A quota of women improves parliament and corporate management.

Governance conducted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures and committees achieves equity.

all aboard

When men gave women the vote in 1902 and allowed women to enter Australia's parliament the inclusion of women was considered an improvement.

The trial worked, governance has improved, its come time to consolidate with a legislature.

a better place

If men spent less time explaining to women how women should behave and more time concerned with their own behaviour the world would be a better place.

A parliament enacting law by agreement between a women's legislature and a men's legislature focuses men's minds on mutual benefit.

fair dinkum democracy

Australian men insult women by claiming expertise over women's life experience and by requiring women to claim expertise over men's life experience as a condition of admission to parliament.

Democracy would be better served if insult was replaced with a women's legislature.

easy peasy

If, as a comments contributor claims, "Traumatised refugees who have lost their land, culture and extended relationships and who have no choice but to move into a new culture with which they have little or no acquaintance and no language ability have been able to make a fresh start, come to terms with the new reality, become successful and make a contribution to the host society within a matter of a generation or so", why has the Crown had so much trouble assimilating with Aborigines?

A parliament enacting law by agreement between women's and men's committees can't be all that difficult to achieve.

 

power

Australia's Constitution gives a majority of men in Parliament the power to ban women from voting and replace all women members with men.

Without a women's legislature all power in Australia is ultimately exercised by men.

short circuit

Commonwealth assistance to Aborigines short circuits because Australia's Constitution doesn't recognise a women's jurisdiction, sidelining the entire middle management of women's and men's committees.

A Constitution with provision for a women's legislature would reconcile assistance to all Australians.

nature

A balance of power between women and men achieves a balance of power with nature.

A parliament enacting law by agreement between a women's legislature and a men's legislature achieves a balanced response with climate change.

 

the boardroom

The inclusion of women in the boardroom raises the status of all women in the workforce just as the inclusion of women in parliament raises the status of all women in the nation.

The true measure of equality is autonomy, enabled with law enacted by agreement between a women's legislature and a men's legislature governing boardroom decisions achieved by agreement between a women's committee and a men's committee.

The most disenfranchised women will no longer endure the indignity of men having the final say in their supervision.

opposition obsolete

The Parliament of Australia is entering a new decade with a Shadow Cabinet comprised of twenty men and two women, an absurd disproportion in the wake of the male generated global economic collapse.

Australia's first Parliament didn't legislate to admit women to have a Shadow Cabinet sideline women a century later.

* Anne Moir & David Jessel: 'Brainsex - The Real Difference Between Men and Women'

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