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Column - Gillard whinges, Abbott endures
JULIA Gillard was once a role model for ambitious young women like my daughter. Now she’s just a whinger.
Gillard, in her memoirs, My Story, can’t accept she was just not up to being prime minister.
She lacked vision, judgment and character yet rages, instead, at the misogyny she insists was a key factor in her fall.
She writes (clumsily) how “even if you are the single most powerful person in your country, if you are a woman, the images that are shadowed around you are of sex and rape”. Pardon?
She complains she was scrutinised as men are not: “I came to realise that the issue of appearance for a woman was not simply a judgment on her clothes, but that it morphed into a judgment of who she was as a person.”
