Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

Leading Left Senator Kate Lundy, which is what I said. The list goes on and the silence is deafening. Labor's women are deliberately vocal when it comes to playing the gender card against the opposition but when it comes to the issue of misogyny over political convenience, political convenience will win every time in the Labor Party. The demotion of Senator Wong is proof that 'the faceless men' are still in charge of the Labor Party and because the Prime Minister's job depends solely on the faceless men, she will not and cannot take them on.

Prime Minister Gillard confirms by her failure to stand up for one of her own sisterhood and the person she spoke of yesterday in such glowing terms that the only reason she is the Prime Minister is that the role was gifted to her by the faceless men. The faceless men giveth and the faceless men can taketh. And if we needed any more proof that the faceless men of the Labor Party decide themselves the order of Labor's South Australian Senate ticket, we need look no further that what occurred last night. The Godfather himself, Senator Don Farrell, summonsed Prime Minister Gillard to meet with him—