Ex Vic treasurer Alan Stockdale gets cancelled for saying the quiet part out loud: "I think women are sufficiently assertive now that we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men's involvement" https://t.co/ym3sE999po pic.twitter.com/YMrmfJz7HN
— noobfromcnh (@songminfang) June 5, 2025
The mistake boomer politicians make is assuming Julia Gillard’s prime ministership was the end of it, when in fact it was just the beginning.
They fail to grasp that an entire generation of impressionable young Australian women heard her “misogyny” speech and cried out in unison, a moment in Australian political history that ignited something enduring.
As Orwell wrote:
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
— George Orwell, 1984
