I get to live there some day. Joy.

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1912649.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1289827.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1912683.htm

Julia Gillard, a politician in Australia, is slammed by the opposition, saying that she is "is not fit to lead the country because she is "deliberately barren"."

Holy. Wow.

Defending his earlier description of Ms Gillard as "deliberately barren", Senator Heffernan argued that having a family helped political leaders understand their community.

So, being unmarried and childfree makes you a bad example to the country's women, does it? Would it be better if she were mother to 4 different children from 3 different husbands? Would you like her to adopt a child to make her 'whole'?

If she were male and in politics, childfree and unmarried, would she be under such fire from her opponents? Probably not.

Women today have choices. Ms Gillard is a shining example to Australian women on how to exercise your choices. Marriage, kids, career, lifestyle, hobbies....these are all choices we make. It's hard enough in this day and age to make good choices. To see someone who can be a good example to future women, someone who is in politics and can do something good for the country AND is also childfree is great.

The current Aussie government and the man who made this comment:
"Mr Heffernan, like the Howard Government, overall is a man who's stuck in the past," she said.

If she had kids, would she then be unfit because the kids will take too much of her time?
If she were male, would it matter?
If she were UNABLE to have kids, how have they just rubbed it in her face?