From a contributor to Michael Smiths blog--- Imagine if you were a well paid male salaried partner at a prestigious Labor Law firm. You work in the Industrial aka Union section. Its a cutting edge business environment but you are smart, ambitious and clued up looking at making full partner or entering politics very soon. Despite your good salary at 35 years of age you have never saved a bean. You buy a house in which you have zero equity and have to ask for your salary in advance. You get a new client a married union boss; you commence an affair with her then start doing work off the books for your girlfriend. You travel further down the slippery slope working off the books and things get messy, in the meantime your girlfriend and her BFFs demolish your bathroom while you are away on a boys weekend and you have no option but to get a new bathroom put in. Things get sticky at work because of your relationship and the activities of your girlfriend and you are forced to leave under a cloud. 17 years later you are a senior politician and getting grilled by a journo about your involvement with the union, you admit that you helped set up an entity to use as a slush fund for a client. You claim you were young and naive. The journo looks at you and says ? It is funny how someone can scream misogyny when criticised for her performance as the leader of the government but make excuses that are based on I was just a poor defenceless female being taken advantage of when it suits her.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:23:01 +0000