The Budget Will Cut Deep, Especially Women
The Budget Will Cut Deep, Especially Women
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Fairly scathing
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Fairly scathing
Fairly? This article doesn't pull any punches đ
Kind of like watching a Lean In seminar hosted by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.
âWe support women,â they chorused. Just not enough to pay them fairly.
Turns out you can have it all. So long as youâre prepared to be a c... to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet.
Some of her colleagues call her Brooke GPT. Itâs not clear if thatâs because of her robotic delivery, or because her answers usually come up short.
Itâs a bit rich to describe these claims as fiscally unsustainable when the last Budget found billions in tax relief for landlords, property speculators and high earners. Plenty of cash for capital gains, but not for caregivers.
Saving money by cancelling justice.
And then selling it by claiming theyâre doing feminism a favour by lighting it on fire and calling it efficiency. Richardson would be proud.
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Its been interesting reading some of the blow-back Vance took for her language. Willis herself was not happy with the "c word" being used, nor the depiction of her "girl-maths" as a derogatory assessment of her abilities as a finance minister.
Setting aside the language used, the intent of the assessment rings true to someone who knew of Willis when she was at University (and knows people who knew her well). She wasn't a deep thinker then, and got ahead on connection and socialising with the right people more than anything else as far as we could see.
Nobody I know from back then has seen anything since that would change their opinion either. It seems pretty obvious to me that she's in a position of decision making far in excess of her ability to reason and understand what she is doing, or the long term implications of it.
But like most of her prior "work" experience she's ballooned in on the recommendation of well connected others, and mostly because she can be relied upon to unleash the magical thinking of the Atlas aligned fundamentalists.
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Sounds like she was destined for politics!
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