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Whether it’s Barney or Barbara, we’re the bad guys again

12 February 2018

8:07 PM

12 February 2018

8:07 PM

How did news of Barnaby Joyce’s shambolic personal life, dodgy boss behaviour, and the Canberra media contingent’s ongoing collective sidestep around the issue suddenly become a platform for moralising at the rest of us about our misogyny?

Clementine Ford in The Age, February 8th

This is part of the double standard that affects women, both inside politics and out.

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