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jack_ryder ([personal profile] jack_ryder) wrote2008-09-05 12:05 pm
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Historic Day

Australia now has its first female head of state (look out America, you're next!)

and NSW no longer has a premier
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[identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Costafortune AND Dilemma !!!!

Not that this will improve the governing of the state.....sorry its hard to be optimistic after so long.

Quentin Dempster has be having a field day.

[identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
We've had a female head of state since the fifties. What we have, though, is the first female actually allowed to wield that power. In fact, technically, 3/4 of the top jobs are now held by women - Rudd is the last bastion of male authority...

[identity profile] jack-ryder.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you historian, you...

[identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I could have been truly pedantic and suggested that our *first* head of state was female, too. We don't give any power, but we like female figureheads?

[identity profile] jack-ryder.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, by your own admission, Esther Abrahams was the first (but there wasn't really an Australia then. Pre-Federation.)

[identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
She was the first woman to hold enough power to be able to be described as running the colony unofficially, though. There's a conspiracy tale in this...

[identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Esther no has her own file in my cabinet, so I have somewhere to store the info I'm collecting.
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