On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> She's pretty reticent by comparison about the significance of being
> the first woman in the job and in fact I do feel oddly satisfied by
> the fact that the first woman governor-general just swore in the
> first woman PM. But the class story she prefers is making me feel
> uncomfortable and yearn for some honesty about "working-class
> fragmentation". Either that or I'd like to hear more discussion
> about the role of mining industries in her ascension. Probably both.
So what are her politics now? Did she originate in the working class only to rise to serve the bourgeoisie? Or is it more complicated than that?
Doug