Women of Calibre

I've been closely following the battle in the seat of Indi, currently held by Sophie 'Witch Ditching' Mirabella, one of Tony Abbott's 'sex appeal' laden women of calibre.

Indi, held by Mirabella for 5 terms now, is extremely close to call at this time and the Independent, Cathy McGowan who has garnered strong support from Greens and Get Up volunteers leading up to the election, looks strong so far in the count.

I've been looking closely at this seat because if you understood the kind of nasty, volatile spew that came forth from Mirabella's disgusting mouth, then you'd see why it's imperative that someone like this NOT take up a cabinet position, let alone office.

Mirabella, who rarely ever drops into her electorate, even during campaign time, has made recent headlines, mostly controversial and most recently for violating AEC regulations, has accused the independent McGowan of being anything but independent. That's Noalition speak for, 'Unfair, you ran a better campaign, now time for me to bitch and moan about it.'

Then over in NSW we have Fiona Scott, one of Abbott's women with 'sex appeal'. As oblivious as Tony was about his very stupid blunder, it was even funnier (or scarier) to hear Scott screech like a shrill about how asylum seekers were clogging up queues, taking up hospital beds etc etc the usual xenophobic rubbish that we've come to expect from the Lib/Nats for a long time now.

Finally, we have the equally xenophobic but no less sexy Teresa Gambaro - the one who boomed loudly a couple of years ago about all the soap that was needed to cleanse immigrants, because they smell... bad. Yes, this was stated loud and clear by none other than the sitting member for Brisbane. Gambaro's quote was definitely not taken out of context. I remember numerous people since who were arguing that she was talking about olfactory sensors. Hang on a minute here, let's call a spade a spade, shall we? When you're discussing odours, and immigrants, and your party has a definite policy against increases to immigration and treats refugees like rubbish, how can that be taken any other way but the words spewed forth from the mouth of a definite racist.

And finally, we have my favourite - Western Australia's favourite daughter...mother... err... grandmother? I don't know, but anyway, we have Julie Bishop....

Actually, I might dedicate one entire article just to her... far too much to say right now about the potential Foreign Minister.

So there you have it, a simple summary of some of Tony Abbott's 'Women of Calibre'.