@RonniSalt I like the way you write about what you see. The painful beauty of life. Your description of Tom 'the Dark Corner Man' will stay with me forever.
@hughriminton Understand the Senator is making a political point here but this is a little misleading.
First of all, the number being cited is first preferences only. Australia has preferential voting.
Second, we don't have one national vote, we have 151 separate House elections.
When men talk about protecting women and children (see Peter Dutton & many on the right) do they ever think about who they seek to protect women &children from? Hint: it's almost always men. We don't want a world where we need protecting. We want a world where we are respected