really offsets
and joining us now she's the editor a feminist thing
are Chloe angel and we're gonna be a discussing up basically this past
weekend with the Australian elections i
Australia elected new prime minister Tony Abbott and I will be that talking
about him is a
and his have I guess amazingness I don't allow us to describe it
thank you so much for joining us CLO thank you for having me
so close let's let's before we get forget to Tony Abbott himself let's
let's discuss
at what what I I i think i
or what what I've been reading I'm what led to I guess
him in his party via the liberal-national coalition which is the
Conservative Party over Nigeria
and I the making nothing clear that's how we getting
yeah so yet so that those conservative party over there is called the Liberal
Party
and the I guess what would be closest to a left-wing ordered that the democrats
over there
would be the labor party is that correct yes that's correct although there's not
a whole lot of daylight between them on the political spectrum
I went back cason much I can I see a recent
I and brief background because I or not so much like know that
americans are fully aware everything that goes on in a
political state outside their own country life course are so it basically
I
Kevin Reid how was I and the
Labour Party were elected in 2007 in now
what account what counts in the landslide out where I come from in 2007
after about 11 years are I Liberal government and
after some shambolic are business in the first three years of his term he was
replaced as the leader of the Labour Party Pack is Deputy Prime Minister
Julia Gillard him
early 2010 I'm and then she will
properly elected she was that she liked it later that year
in a federal election 2010 and she just got his first time you are a prime
minister I R
she was she was a very first when prime minister
out which is that a big deal and i ended sexism forever
I obviously just like have just like how Barack Obama and I schism here
exactly exactly I'm and
yeah cue another 3 shambolic years
unfortunately I and are there was that what could a leadership spill
I'm which is a reshuffling as as who is running the party
earlier this year I'm Kevin Rudd who had been foreign minister
out for a couple years but his that never really it with gray was not very
happy with that situation in with angling for the leadership Pratt
for the whole time that he wears out of power I'm
was by once again made leader at the Labour Party
earlier this year and and on Saturday
on Saturday at their lead to lead the party lost time
time I thanks to the time difference
i can state I got to wake up as we know it happened I get to wake up to the year
that's who I am your leader is an affair
which is not it wasn't feeling by the Black I i can imagine
um select let's let me with let's bring up with a Kevin right i mean
just before just a few days ago he was sort of I guess
having some sort of name value here in the States cuz there was a video going
around where
it went viral online at least where r he basically
stood up for I same-sex I marriage in in Australia
this pastor Christian pastor asked him a question
and basically he it was great
I mean everyone was sharing it it seem like you know we could have
I mean over in New Zealand our show is neighbors they just basically legalize
same-sex marriage
and maybe that could have happened in Australia but now we have this a new
prime minister
I Tony Abbott who defeated Kevin Reid and it's looking like that may not be
happening anytime soon
in Australia yep that's that's not gonna happen com
it was interesting to me is that I the way the American
star seems to become aware trailing partitions in by
is through viral video the most people remember the amazing
about 15 minutes viral dr. Julia Gillard last year
going chip town entree at it and on are the sectors climate
generally the misogynist I miss yesen parlance out last year
you remember that but here they just rocketed around the world yes
exactly I remember it ever all 15 minutes it yet so this doesn't happen to
basically a
filed in your team to be our main contribution yeah global political
discourse
it's not some fortunate but not yet
so I Kevin Rudd had a he had a job I bought my man
last week I hee hee hee
off in a very a a very Christian defense
out marriage equality in the face a
in during a question type in your town hall meeting where I'm
s up process Christian with talking about not going
going without going against the Bible im not in support for same-sex marriage
and yeah it was it was to it with them
international sensation it was not enough to save him save the party
unfortunately
on but then again nothing nothing was going to be on this is in
Saturday the result has been past eight accompli for quite some time
hmm so let's let's get into the man himself
the new prime minister for Australia Tony Abbott I just have a few quite a
few quotes if his I just thought I would
read a few these quotes to basically a I think that way I know exactly which
quite is going to be if everyone about the Jedi being a precious gift
it's gonna be at the one about abortion being easy way out
and I public anyone about marriage equality rights
I well you got 2-for-3 the other the other 1i was buried
was his are his analysis on climate change which is climate change is
absolute crap
I yeah yeah I mean I mean but
yes Brooke be I mean very really disappointing thing about back it back
I have frankly I'm and know that there was a very lengthy article at this link:
gonna clear carry out when that they've got to ride
I'm I'll continue to rise drama we are going to be
how incredibly scary we gonna be so incredibly scary something like eighty
percent about population live
on curry I'm where a very low-lying country with the all the fun trying
drive constant in the world I'll where we're gonna be totally straight about
managing a member already totally scary
I climate change and down this new yorkers baby about
as the Yorkers compliance tell you us New Yorkers comedians trillion to the
bottom of the ocean
when I climate change is there I
yeah I'm I'm I mean look whether wanna be an
mind a great things about labor party although our I mean you the web
shambolic
are here and because the they better I couldn't get it back together on
on cop in training and on Unohana on a concall
think that one of the great things that we really did think the meeting to what
a position where we
my I'm like a lot of options in the United States acknowledged kinda changes
re ok
I'm that it quite fine and and that it can pose a real
I environmental economic and I
and human rights problem our next in the next century assuming we'll
the quiet an eccentric I'm not you know that this doesn't look like that's gonna
be the secretary anymore and that's that's really disappointing
I but a yes honey and not my
star like to record I on demo
yeah let's let's let's get to that yes
um a yeah he I mean he also has had a tendency
humor in this campaign by the way campaign lot for a five-week
which I'm given that we're already talking about 2016 here in the States
five weeks
that sounds like Wow in our worker sound like a quickie
really where they American option is more like counterattack
voting voting is also mandatory nice Jara
the mandatory yeah I an interesting matchup
me was very interesting about had it with watching him
watching him use his daughters to I
daughters were in their late at only twenty I'm
use them as political props I'm during the campaign which is not to say that
they on
you know preempting human factor is that by choice but it's been really
interesting to you
watchin I'm for
strategically deploy a women his family
as I as per that he doesn't have a winning problem which
in a yeah but I don't like saying in our my one black friend loves me
I exactly yes
so let's let's discuss there was there was one moment that that was getting a
little bit uva
even here in the state is getting a little bit about attraction was his
his quote about one of his fellow candidates
I having a bit of sex appeal
yeah yeah I look I have had one problem
Tony Abbott a cannot seem to talk about
women are about gender without in our putting its wouldn't nap and that's
partly a function of the fact that he lives in at
in Australia which have one problem I holly hunter
back to share in politics definitely is a
is really Texas I mean if you look at the way that Julia Gillard will talk
about untreated
I in in political and political coverage
I'm and by unify her
people have high and people outside her party who apply sir it's pretty clear
that
your simply electing a woman prime minister doesn't
erase yes spectrum problem and are
don't have it has had experience with this moment talking
talking about women whether they're in his own family in his potty
on whether it's about the women to whom he's providing paper in to leave
this to me is a heartbreaking thing about about a
well want a heartbreaking things about habit is that he has
on tears push certain provide paper in to leave
I'm to their strong families and
it comes you know that that's great that's good idea that a great idea I'm
come Houston quoting all this texas and
here but my career cried paper into legal put you in a very difficult
situation where
your you want romp you want one thing and
how much you want I guess you want the candy how much crap you willing to take
that to get
in a yeah I mean I have a quote here I'm even when he's discussing what you like
you said
you know with you which is mentioned paid leave and then
on rights at work you have to score here bad bosses
like bad fathers and husbands should be tolerated because they do more good than
harm
I mean simply unbelievable yeah
yeah like I said Tony Abbott has a woman problems and now women have a tiny have
a problem
that's yet that's a great way to put it ING's his
few great honour on on same-sex marriage to you
you know just like Kevin Reid standing up there and speaking for the right
server
all people right I
so are you to cut up peppers I can't let you go I said how and he's great on a
same sex marriage to just like Kevin right right
are no not really but the good news is that both parties have terrible asylum
seeker policy is rere
thats look I mean one of my friend
iraq's will kill who is there you that's because our to go for training
and the way she put it with that Saturday result but like
breaking up with someone when you know that the relationship is bad for you
went back to them
by you really don't wanna go out with the other guy by
you don't know you have an unhealthy relationship and
be honest to god truth is that the lockable either way the government has
been utterly shambolic
about time I use that word thing I mean it
and die you know my my feeling when I wanted to fight
are after at the %uh the concert here in New York last week was that it's a
get a lesser a real situation I'm there they're really want any good options in
this election
I'm especially if you care about I about LGBT rights
taken care by gender equity if you care about it sounds because they were really
there were really no good options in this election its its
pretty bleak situation so I Saurashtra is just like america
that in that sense I mean really I'm
it's interesting I its it interesting to are to be serviced
to be mired in I American election cycle for a couple years in to watch
on how to watch a cherry become more like america at least now I
in how be run out campaigns I'm
you were in a cherry when people accuse people american stop politics that's not
a compliment
I'm that and there's been a lot of focus on on theatrics
and and not a lot on something and that is a tree
a pretty american trade I would say and that not one that I wanna see
my my home country aspiring their me when you look at when you look at
so many these these major industrialized countries
I mean you see that there there becoming more left leftist progressive
on many issues and then you take a look at I guess
show you now and the United States and that's just couldn't be any more the app
said I mean looking at some of these quotes from Tony Abbott
a really would not surprise me to see the these quotes being attributed to
a republic in here and somebody's even democrats year
yeah you know that's true but some but
its no I'm unite despite what I said earlier I wouldn't say
you know that sleep-wake I mean I think I'm if for no other reason than we have
at least
had a woman head of state I
week you know with at least had a elected a woman
have stayed on ICQ say as is the case and
with you know what progress in the state just in case it is steps forward one
step back and they're always exceptional people here
at anyone who is there I'm chain finance minister
and the labor party a shall now be probably shatter finance minister
and cheese and openly gay straining and are
I'm Asian to sent to
and to you know has been very open about her about having a kid
Washington office something she is she said she's a child labor in
in multiple a and a and you know NEC
you see bright spots like that Kia and and
chair and IR despite what the prevailing mood is there always think spot so
a type like that I Chloe I can't site
I close my coffee habit a Tamaki who are
I height this is a Michael Brooks year I just have a quick question for you
what about I the Green Party in Australia either
I had seen a couple years ago it seemed like they had made some progress they
were
I in coalition I thought Labour Party at least briefly
on what kinda fact they play now in Australian politics
now moving forward you know I think they play
I de prueba role except tempting
a tempting more progressive minded would be labor's I don't
um it so you know it's its
I think are people who would love to stay then become a a bridge in its third
party option
because at all speeds are in keeping with the lotto
a what I mean if American progressive samsung champ transplanted into
Australia they would find itself going to bring body parts
it's also not when it comes to electing
people who will actually be governing um
you know in a meaningful way it's not yet a viable option
other as he say that and getting is once and and
and momentum and the last in the last decade of star
and I mean I think I think what a great what everybody does it serve as a as a
wish lists for people who I'm have to choose between
idealism and and pragmatism right
Chloe ako Angelov I had a feminist thing
I thanks so much for joining us today I I believe I'll
will have a number of Americans listening to this program who
don't use the paid or stay in politics get get more into it or at least I hope