Liberals dump Kurrajong candidate

The issue is anyone with any real intellectual property talent is a threat to the tightly controlled internal power structure run by mediocre hacks and number counters, so are promptly bullied out.

Fair point, Labor should also be commended for having diversity of team members. Though Liberals had been behind in team diversity compared with Labor, Labor had been known to be very poor in that regard before. For example, out of the 53 people who served as ministers or parliamentary secretaries in the federal Labor Hawke governments between 1983 and 1991, only 4 were women.

I must say Sol on my side of politics I haven’t seen that. Anyone with talent is certainly supported and that can be seen in the strength of Labor’s candidates, especially in the last 2 elections. Maybe that is why we have seen some ex-Labor members changing sides and running for the Liberals in this and the last number of elections.

Yes John Hutch and the Hawke government saw the lack of women’s representation as a problem, anointing Labor’s first female senator Susan Ryan as the first ever Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women. Susan Ryan was also a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby ACT branch. She was also involved in the creation of the Federal Sex Discrimination Act, 1984, the Affirmative Action (Equal Opportunities in Employment) Act 1986 and the Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act 1987. Labor and its Labor women are very proud of these achievements.

With no disrespect intended, Susan Ryan’s appointment as “Minister assisting Minister” was a symbolic one to address a perception of “lack of women’s representation” but it qualified her well for future similar appointments. I can’t recall anything outstanding that she achieved but certainly Labor women have although those achievements have not been mentioned.

I’m referring to the Canberra Liberals specifically. It’s talent pool is pretty thin as factional control by right wing reactionaries has won out. Branches are routinely stacked and factional loyalty enforced. Dissent is not tolerated. It’s not the “Liberal” party people think it is.

Theres the problem. Voters do not give a rats about the diversity or ethnicity of candidates. They just want intelligent competent people & not party hacks.

I think it can be both. There can be more diverse representation based on merit. I don’t find tokenism and quotas to be empowering or meaningful.

That’s the way it used to be but that is now part of the cancelled culture.

He was obviously going to challenge the current leadership of the Liberals and that’s why they got rid of him.

Got it in one I reckon CR!

I beg to differ. I think it only took a few public appearances for his incapability of winning/ leading to become abundantly clear.

The only thing this bloke was challenging was the current title holder of lowest IQ in the assembly. Actually, with that in mind, maybe you are right.

That didn’t stop the Canberra Liberals strongly supporting Elizabeth Kikkert, who has no education or experience whatsoever. Perhaps she felt threatened then.

A candidate with no education would be worth looking at.

What better way to ensure a balanced understanding of all of societies complex problems than by rulling out anyone with any form of formal proven capability.

I think I recognise that sentence from somewhere…? 🙂