M/soft executive won't work with Minister Porter, page-59

Porter's historical rape allegations are little to do with this. It's his attitude to women, and a tech sector trying to encourage women to enter an industry with a deeply entrenched history of misogyny and abuse of women. Porter doesn't fit. He's from a bygone era.

Porter past history and quotes:
"Lawyers are just well-dressed prostitutes"
"Our opposition's case had more holes than Snow White's hymen"
"Helen Keller could have made a better fist of it"
"I remember him commenting that he would never date a woman who weighed over 50 kilograms"
"...he commented that the woman involved was thin enough, but she didn't have big enough tits, and the next woman that he was going to date needed to be as thin, but have bigger tits."
Describing a football match, Mr Porter said a highlight was "the water girls, although they should probably shower more often".
Porter's former UWA students described sexualised comments about female students, and a gratuitous focus on violent and sexually graphic material in the legal cases he taught.

Mr Porter was formally reprimanded in 2017 by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for his drunken behaviour in public with young women.
Numerous reports of behaviour supporting Turnbull's criticism of Porter's behaviour in Parliament, while Australia's chief law officer.

Tech industry reservations:
Chief executive of industry group Startup Victoria Judy Anderson spent Tuesday morning canvassing the opinions of women founders of well-established technology scale-up companies, among her membership. She said they believed Mr Porter’s appointment was inappropriate and damaging to a sector that had introduced programs to improve gender diversity.

"This appointment weakens the signal to aspiring women entrepreneurs, new angel investors and talent that tech is a place of equal opportunity for women,” Ms Anderson said.