How to silence gender deafness? First step, call it out when it's happening
Annastacia Palaszczuk and John Coates at the Olympics 2032 press conference (Image: ABC) If Julie Bishop thinks she suffered from so-called gender deafness as a politician, then Annastacia Palaszczuk must have misogyny muteness after her very public humiliation by John Coates. The Queensland premier appeared to be struck dumb by the sheer appalling-ness of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) president, who chose a global press conference to berate, demean and patronise her. Despite this morning's efforts of the News Corp Olympic toadies to justify the dinosaur’s behaviour (as opposed to ...