Inside the Australian Liberal Party HIVE

[Oz-BlokeParticipant 3233]

Today’s The Australian newspaper has an interesting column about the inner workings of the Australian Liberal Party Hive with its female members having a women’s only ‘What’s App’ group where they discuss how heavily they should play the bullying card to gain political advantage. The article is behind a paywall, but if you want to search it is entitled –

‘Libs’ women problem turns out to be liberal women’

To quote key points in the article –

“It pays not to take at face value claims by some female Liberals that the Liberal Party has a problem with women. Nor claims that the Liberal Party is full of men who bully female politicians. Or claims that the party has a “women problem”. The truth, as always, is far more complicated. One thing is certain: there is a simmering civil war among Liberal female MPs.

The Australian has obtained screen shots of recent WhatsApp conversations among female ­Coalition MPs. The group — open to women only — ­includes senior Liberals such as Julie Bishop, newcomers such as Amanda Stoker and everyone between: Linda Reynolds, Sarah Henderson, Kelly O’Dwyer, Bridget McKenzie, Karen Andrews, Lucy Wicks, Melissa Price, Nola Marino, Anne Ruston, ­Nicolle Flint, Sussan Ley, Jane Prentice, Jane Hume, Julia Banks (she left the group a few weeks ago), Lucy Gichuhi (she left last Friday), Ann Sudmalis, Connie Fierravanti-Wells, Marise Payne, Michelle Landry and Michaelia Cash.

Imagine if there were a Coalition men-only WhatsApp. That aside, the WhatsApp conversation — from Monday, September 3, until Wednesday, September 6 — gives a truer picture about claims of bullying within the Liberal Party. Liberal women are deeply divided over the issue.

On one side, a small group of vocal women is intent on building momentum, geeing each other up and trying to portray bullying as clear-cut and systemic. It kicked off with Banks, who says she will resign at the next election, claiming she had been bullied during her short time in Canberra. Like a relay team, O’Dwyer, Bishop and others have kept the claims going with interviews, speeches and corridor asides.

On WhatsApp, Reynolds ­applauds O’Dwyer with a nice clapping hands emoji and “brava on 7.30 tonight”. Gichuhi pips in with “Goodwork kelly” and Price posts more clapping hands and “Well done Kell”.

Reynolds then posts this: ­“Ladies Lucy, Julia and Kelly need our moral support.” She ends her lengthy call to arms with “The question is how!?”. Bishop then tells the group “Perhaps I’ll have some insights” when she speaks at the women’s forum the next day. (She did, repeating claims of bullying, but no names, no particulars.) Reynolds responds to Bishop’s ­recurring red shoe emoji with a red boxing glove emoji.

Then dissent emerges in the WhatsApp women-only ranks. Stoker says: “Of course, if there’s a complaint of bullying to be made, it should be particularised and fully investigated, but our avenue for doing that is through the whip’s office, not through the media or in the chamber.”

The episode sounds like a grab from the teenage cult movie Mean Girls. Except these are grown women masquerading as cool girls, speaking the same way, treating other women with contempt to the point of not making eye contact with those who won’t repeat their bullying mantra.

The Australian has learned that Stoker is among other Liberal female MPs who have had enough of this increasingly bogus campaign. They have remained honourably quiet in the hope that new Prime Minister Scott Morrison be given a chance to get on with the job of unifying a fractured party and giving voters a genuine choice at the next election. Now they are fed up, frustrated and, frankly, disgusted that the same Liberal women who have made public complaints about bullying are now bullying other female Liberal MPs to join their cause.

The Liberal Party — elected with a thumping majority in 2013 and re-elected in 2016 — does now have a women’s problem: a group of disgruntled Liberal women ­intent on whipping up a crisis at any cost.”

And to think this was penned by a female columnist, Janet Albrechtsen, calling out the sisterhood for throwing out claims of political bullying, without actually naming any of the alleged bullies. The bullying card is like all the other cards out there – sexism, racism, ageism – it can be overplayed and each time its is, its power is diminished. It’s the boy who cired wolf fable, only now it’s girls crying ‘bully’ and ‘sexism’ any chance they can.
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#ManOut

[ChristopherParticipant 2478]

JeBus H Holy s~~~ show – women bring chaos, irrationality and destruction wherever they go. I have seen it myself first hand in political orgs, companies, etc They should not be allowed vote never mind be in politics..

I used to live in Australia – just like other westernised countries its turned into a rampant bed of tamponism. Get back to your correct female role women – that aint gonna happen so mainstream society is f~~~ed
Good post man.
MGTOW for the win

Feminism was funded by bankers/politicians to create more taxpayers. MGTOW IS FREEDOM https://archive.org/details/mgtowisfreedomblurayready

[iMickey503Participant 12465]

Politics. Its like High School never ended.

Great place for women. Do nothing and get paid. Sooner or later, men are going to ignore women period. Laws, politics etc.

You are all alone. If you have been falsely accused of RAPE, DV, PLEASE let all men know about the people who did this. http://register-her.net/web/guest/home

[SwimcatParticipant 3599]

Women will present a united front against a common enemy (men) but give them any power and authority and their selfish interest and jealousy will have them cat fighting at each others throats. We can always count on that.

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