Gillard the AUS radical says your mums a slut

[mellie]

Julia Gillard's first foray into politics was in the early 1980s, when, as a university law student, she became active in the now-defunct Australian Union of Students (AUS).

The AUS was then totally dominated by the extreme left. In 1983 — the year she was elected AUS president — an AUS annual council defeated heavily a call to oppose "all acts of terrorism and political violence" (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N28).

Furthermore, the AUS annual council declined to recognise the rights of religious clubs and societies at universities to "express their views on campus" or to have access to campus facilities (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N34).

The AUS declared 1983 to be the International Year of the Lesbian.

It also adopted a policy on prostitution which said, in part: "Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex. … Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping." (Quoted by Helen Trinca, The Australian, April 6, 1984, p.7).

This bizarre statement made headlines across Australia. Anti-AUS student activists produced posters with the slogan: "AUS says your mother is a prostitute!"

By early 1984, not only Liberals, but moderate Labor and Jewish students, were campaigning vigorously to abolish the AUS. While Julia Gillard and her left-wing colleagues were defending the union, campus after campus was seceding from it, depriving it of funds and bringing about its rapid collapse.

From 1984 until 1993, Ms Gillard became a prominent figure in the militant left Socialist Forum, which had recently been formed by disaffected members of the Communist Party of Australia and Labor's left-wing. It sought, among other things, to remove Australia from the ANZUS alliance and to twin Melbourne with Leningrad (re-named St Petersburg since the fall of communism).

Julia Gillard has made light of her youthful radicalism, and has been painstakingly careful to present herself as a moderate.


Great article, I think you guys will enjoy this one.

For starters, I didn't write it..


http://www.menzieshouse.com.au/2010/08/ ... -past.html

[Pastafarian]

No, but given the stance of the Menzies house (fairly obvious, given the name), you may as well have written it.

[harvey]

Interesting article by the OP, see the PM wouldnt want it to gather too much oxygen.
And if any is given then it would be giggled away as being nothing more than 'student life'

[mellie]

No, but given the stance of the Menzies house (fairly obvious, given the name), you may as well have written it.

Fair point, however, stance aside, it's factual, it's what and who she is.

[mellie]

-She's the classic socialist small 'c' communist atheist, (I'm agnostic) , this and not so self assured that I could entirely rule out the possibility of there being something.
-She's still a bra-burning feminist, doesn't value 'breeders' woman who wish to assume traditional motherly roles, she sees these woman as whores to their husbands, submissive, subservient, weak and unproductive.

-She still recoils with unease and looks like she's holding a perforated bag of dog shit when someone passes her their infant.
You know how young men who have not had children of their own look awkward when passed an infant for the very first time, holding it as carefully as possible, with intense concentration, fearful they may break ...Well she looks like this, without the concern, it's more of a bemused indignant bravado.. I bet watching mums with young children even irks her . I have seen 13 year old girls swag a baby off their hip with more confidence and warmth, a natural comfort that Gillard the alien cant seem to manufacture convincingly, lacks empathy, however hard she tries to confect otherwise. I even feel awkward for her, the body language says it all.

-She's the princess of darkness, like Keating, mocks her culture, her people, even "apologised for her dreadful Australian accent" when visiting NZ's PM several weeks back.

[harvey]

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-She's still a bra-burning feminist,

would she ever have had one to burn?

[mellie]

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-She's still a bra-burning feminist,

would she ever have had one to burn?

lol

[Plough]

KFC are doing the Julia Gillard special

2 small breasts 2 large thighs delivered ina large red box!

[mellie]

lol...

She has breasts?

[boxy]

Sounds good. I would much rather have someone who has been exposed to all these non-conformist ideas early on, and who has built up a belief system by seeing what is defensible, and what is not. A traditional marriage certainly isn't something that should be immune to criticism, otherwise we would still have them as being "'til death do you part", regardless of how abusive or disfunctional they become.

And the fact is, some women do submit to staying in loveless, and even horrendously abusive relationships for "security" reasons (be it financial, or other), essentially prostituting themselves.

Oh, and your mom wears combat boots, to boot