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Speaker 1: Yeah to Brook van Valden, workplace minister, who this afternoon

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Speaker 1: hit back at misogynistic attacks against her and other female ministers.

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Speaker 2: And I do not agree with the clearly gendered and

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Speaker 2: patronizing language that Andrea Vance used to reduce senior cabinet

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Speaker 2: ministers to girl bosses, heigh squads, references to girl math and.

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Speaker 1: Yep, sea word in the house after Labour's Jantinetti asked

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Speaker 1: her if she agreed with the now infamous Colin Brook

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Speaker 1: van Walden is with us? Now, Hey Brook, hey ever,

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Speaker 1: you obviously wanted to say the sea word, didn't you.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, the main point that I was trying to

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Speaker 2: raise this afternoon is, you know, Labor intentionally brought what

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Speaker 2: is a very misogynistic article to the debating chamber to

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Speaker 2: make pointed attacks at the government. And I wanted to

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Speaker 2: stand up for myself and stand up for all of

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Speaker 2: the other female cabinet ministers that it's not okay that

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Speaker 2: we have misogynistic abuse, and it's not okay that it

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Speaker 2: was brought into the chamber. So I thought, let's hold

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Speaker 2: up a mirror here to Labor to show exactly what

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Speaker 2: they are actually bringing to the chamber. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I found surprising in the last

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Speaker 1: few days is how quick Labor were to attack people

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Speaker 1: who had any the triol directed at just Sindaradu or

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Speaker 1: any of their side, but how silent they are on this.

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Speaker 1: And this is the worst kind of thing you can

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Speaker 1: say about a woman. Are you surprised?

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Speaker 2: I am surprised because I would hope that we're better

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Speaker 2: than this. You know, it doesn't matter who it is

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Speaker 2: in Parliament, I would never support them having misogynistic slurs

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Speaker 2: thrown around or intentionally try to bring that into the

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Speaker 2: debating chamber. You know, for me, we should have basic

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Speaker 2: respect and decorum for every member of Parliament. And also

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Speaker 2: I think we have a role as leaders in our

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Speaker 2: country to set an example. And I'm really disappointed that

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Speaker 2: that doesn't go across all of Parliament. You think of

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Speaker 2: all of the young women who could have potentially been

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Speaker 2: reading that article and thinking, well, maybe I don't actually

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Speaker 2: want to stand for parliament, maybe I don't want to

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Speaker 2: be a senior woman if this is what it means.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm heading back and saying, look, it's not acceptable.

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Speaker 2: You know, we have strong women in our cabinet. They're

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Speaker 2: doing hard work and we shouldn't be subjected to this abuse.

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Speaker 1: Brook, thank you very much for talking to us. Appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Brook van Valden, Workplace Relations Minister. For more from Heather

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