12 June 2013
Subjects: Julia Gillard’s gender war
E&OE…
BEN FORDHAM Let’s go to the Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop this afternoon.
Ms Bishop, good afternoon.
JULIE BISHOP Good afternoon Ben.
BEN FORDHAM What did you make of the speech?
JULIE BISHOP I thought it was a desperate Prime Minister who is leading a bitterly divided party and having to resort to base politics of fear and division to try and distract from her leadership worries. I thought it was dispiriting, embarrassing that the Prime Minister would concoct a false gender war to divide the community. We should expect the Prime Minister to govern for all Australians and not try to wage a false gender war to divide the community.
BEN FORDHAM How insulting to women though, when you say to people – ‘oh well if I go down, we’re all going to go down, under Tony Abbott women are going to be banished from the positions of power or positions of influence’.