I have tried to avoid the "Mean Girls" saga but it is difficult to overstate how much our unbiased etc Media - esp the ABC - have promoted Penny Wong & Kristina Keneally (no idea who Gallagher is...the wannabe group follower?) and denied the obvious about their conduct.
No serious person thinks, if this saga were occurring on the Coalition side, the ABC would be other than in a form of (further) meltdown, while the Guardian would have Murpharoo & Amy Remikis liveblogging Melbourne slam poets reacting to 'the revenge of the not quite patriarchy'
The tragedy of it all, amid many, is we actually need - esp on national security issues - to have a 'vital centre' where, whatever else we disagree on, we agree on A, B, C, to do with the defence and security of Australia. Kimberley Kitching, like Danby, was that vital centrist.
It simply staggers me that any person could have bullied Kimberley. You can disagree with people, find their ideas wrong, find them personally annoying, etc, but there is no need to bully someone, belittle their fertility(!), or threaten their future for not agreeing with you.
It is difficult to believe that all or most of the Canberra press gallery did not know of the Mean Girls saga. The whole point of a press gallery within Parliament is to poke around & find things out. Yet this was never reported until Kimberley Kitching's untimely passing. Why?
Every time our politics has a tragedy like this, we have appeals for better behaviour & civility...and then the ferocious hackery of Australian politics returns. Everyone has a choice in how they conduct themselves. Those who behave meanly are too rarely held to account for that.
As a nation, we need wise men & wise women - and no more mean girls & mean boys. Hopefully, tragic lessons have been learned about the need for a mature & hack free politics. We as a nation deserve better from Canberra & its usual suspects, who are too often, as here, a disgrace.
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