This year’s International Women’s Day has taken on an even more special significance as women participate in the ‘Day With Women’ strikes.
“Raising a few eyebrows is this IWD tribute by Liberal senator Eric Abetz, who has taken to Facebook (retweeted here by Labor MP Tony Burke) to praise Queen Elizabeth II.
“Fair enough, to a point: plenty of people would applaud her role in public life.
“As an example of where “hard work and commitment” can get you in life, the logic goes a little astray. But the most jarring note is surely that dismissal of “demanding that people … artificially promote you simply because of your sex”.
“If Elizabeth had had a brother – even a younger one – she would not have been entitled to that throne at all, of course.”
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