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the best person
The best person for the job allowed men to stack the high-risk finance industry and collapse the global economy.
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men’s legislature removes infants in care
The rules of Australia's Senate, a men's legislature as mandated by the nation's Constitution, prohibit the attendance of infants in maternal care.
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crumbling misogyny
Flash back 120 years and many of the most educated men would have postured that granting women
the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament 'amounts to one of the most negative of
women's agendas which will never work or be implemented, largely because most women, along
with all the men of Australia think it completely divisive and bereft of any merit'.
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new federalism
The Constitution of Australia was enacted to enable a Federation of States.
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sport and politics
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for sports organisations to foster greater respect for women.
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opportunity to end violence
Australia's government will ask the Australian Law Reform Commission to 'examine the inter-relationship of
Federal and State laws that relate to the safety of women and their children'.
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the measure of a man
When constitutional democracy commenced, only men made law and delivered justice.
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states' senate obsolete
Australia's Senate no longer operates as a forum for State review as the nation's Constitution intends.
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astonished
Most Australians would be astonished to learn their nation's Constitution is the primary cause of rape and sexual violence, High Court judges and the Attorney-General included on indication of their silence.
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power and control
"Many people believe that rape is a sexual act. Although rape involves sexual acts, it is motivated by the desire for power and control over another person rather than by sexual attraction or the desire for sexual gratification. In other words,
rape is a crime of violence."
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smart democracy
I'd like to propose that a better system of democracy than the one we have now would comprise both a men's and a women's legislature, which would be presided over by elders.
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Australia act referendum
Women were prohibited from the Parliament which enacted The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900.
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gender common to all forms of discrimination
Disadvantage from discrimination based on race, religion, colour, age and disability persist in modern society despite ongoing efforts at eradication.
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collective bargaining
The global economy collapsed through a failure of legislatures in which women and men bargain
individually, to regulate the financial industry.
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women rescue economy
At the vanguard of a new era in gender relations, a community which suffered a humiliating collapse during the global economic meltdown "has turned over key levers of finance to women", The Washington Post reports.
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smart government
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's call for a new world order to regulate capitalism comes as women achieve office at every level of government.
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governance insufficient
First Australians have every right to govern their own when governance imposed is insufficient.
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men's club discriminates against women
The president of Melbourne's Athenaeum club has affirmed a prohibition on female membership.
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wage_war_forever
Israel's Knesset is comprised of 15 per cent women.
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men's parliament speaks with woman's voice
Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, has "slapped down ambitions for a new
indigenous representative body to have legislative powers".
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men's democracy insufficient
In a letter to the editor, founding Australian Human Rights Commissioner Brian Burdekin
writes: "It is extraordinary that any lawyer - let alone retired High Court judges or colourful QCs - can seriously contend that the common law and democratically elected parliaments are adequate to protect human rights."
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women's rights discussion censured
Mention of the merits of women's legislatures is grounds for removal from bogus ALP yahoogroups list, ALP Soapbox.
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