Senator Sue Boyce delivers valedictory speech calling out Abbott as “a sexist”.
Senator Sue Boyce has delivered a powerful exit interview today before her formal retirement from politics at the end of June.
During the interview, she called Tony Abbott one of many “subtle sexists” found in Australian Parliament, and criticised Gillard for singling out the PM as a rarity and using the word ‘misogynist’ instead of ‘sexist’ to describe him.
Boyce also added many of the older male MP’s against the paid parental leave scheme had outdated views and “still yearn for the life when…proper mothers stayed home and looked after the children”.
She did however concede that Mr Abbott had been more receptive of female views than many of her other male colleagues over the years.
Pakistani woman, 21, gang-raped and killed.
A 21-year-old woman, Muzammil Bibi, was yesterday attacked and gang raped by three men in a field in the Layyah area in the province of Punjab. Bibi was found hanged from a tree in a case that is eerily similar to the horrific deaths of two women hanged in India last month.
Officials say this is the first time they have seen such a case occurring in Pakistan.
They also reported that Bibi’s body revealed signs of resistance against the attackers’ attempts to strangle her.
Three men have so far confessed to the crime. Two policemen have also been held on suspicion of trying to cover up the crime.