Aussie PM in denial as her support amongst males drops to all time low

Submitted by Kratch on Thu, 2012-04-19 15:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has responded to news of the collapse of her support amongst Australia’s voting public with an air of denial that has even stunned her harshest critics.
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Senior federal Labor MPs are warning Ms Gillard that she needs a strategy to win back the hearts and minds of middle Australians, especially males, otherwise Labor faces being decimated at the next federal election.
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And a policy that has received little news media coverage but has caused significant grass roots upheaval has been the recent 2011 Family Law amendments, which have effectively dismantled Australia’s popular and broadly successful shared parenting laws, and replaced them with what is largely perceived to be anti-male, anti-fatherhood policies, many seeing this as Gillard cowering to feminist ideologues.

Critics have warned Gillard that she needs to win back the support of male blue-collar workers, who are the traditional Labor mainstays who have abandoned Labor en masse.'

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I've been actively involved with the Labour party since the sixties. Really disillusioned. I've argued for a long time that the desertion of Labor's heartland was complete.

The party was celebrating a centenary of some sort a short while ago. Saw a set of old photos showing masses of work soiled, working class, family men. Today's Labor doesn't consider men a part of the community or the family. Their only interest is "women and their children" which is both excluding for men/fathers and objectifying of children.

When my paternal grandfather died ten years ago he had an almost "state funeral" by local standards because of his past influence in the labour movement. I'm so glad he never saw what has become.

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Submitted by gwallan on Fri, 2012-04-20 01:56