quackademicDec 8

‘Can you imagine a female politician surviving a story arc in which she commences a relationship with a staff member and leaves her husband who has raised their kids and fibs about it to colleagues and then blows up her government with her resignation and then later passes out in the street, which is captured on video, and now quits the party that's sponsored her into parliament?’

I often find commentary from Annabel Crabb to be arch & flippant. This time she’s spot on.

These are the unwritten rules: a woman who is not perfect in every domain of her existence has no place in public life. A man who forks up is just ‘boys being boys’. Exemplified in Gillard / Abbott, or Clinton / Voldemort. Too many to name.

The narrative runs bc it gets clicks. Can’t we grow the fork up now?

#AusPol #PubTest #DoubleStandards #misogyny

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/barnaby-joyce-annabel-crabb-expenses-one-nation-defection/106114804?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Australia's favourite political test depends on who is at the pub

The "pub test" tends to be applied when we've run out of avenues to pursue a public figure, but are still super annoyed.

ABC News
Alastair Bor 🇦🇺Feb 28, 2023
A major resistance point for #australian #ev skeptics is the lack of #charging #infrastructure. I was doing a bit of a #pubtest last year with a #greenie friend who mentioned that there is plenty of capacity to do a charger per pole. I filed that away and then just read this today. https://thedriven.io/2023/02/27/ausgrid-unveils-sydneys-first-power-pole-mounted-ev-charger-in-glebe
Ausgrid unveils Sydney’s first power pole-mounted EV charger in Glebe

Ausgrid unveils its first pole mounted EV charging station in Sydney, among the first of some 30,000 such installations across its network.

The Driven