“You think, oh okay, that was a dud,” Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said about her thoughts being shut down when she spoke up in Canberra. “It’s like no one hears you,” agreed Labor MP Linda Burney.
Aussie women in politics said gender deafness was even worse when representation in Parliament House was lower than it is now, and more so if they were the only woman in the room.
Labor MP Anne Aly told Crabb that if she presented one of her takes, a male colleague would agree with her, before the rest of the room would claim it as his, “patting each other on the back for their wonderful idea they came up with”.
The 64-year-old fashionista looked stunning in a figure-hugging black sequin dress with a sweeping train, but it was her jewellery that really had everyone talking