Yawn. Until I started this post, I had been filtering out the discussion around this issue. It has joined the categories of things that set-off my mental killswitch -- like the carbon tax, Gillard "backstabbing" Rudd, and anything that uses the phrases: "clean energy future", "working Australians", "great big lie", there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead", " fair go", "getting on with the job" etc etc. Now that I am done, I am free to go back to not caring. Trust me, that's a relief. He has said, and I quote, in a discussion about women being under-represented in institutions of power in Australia, the interviewer was a man called Stavros. The Leader of the Opposition says "If it's true, Stavros, that men have more power generally speaking than women, is that a bad thing?" And then a discussion ensues, and another person says "I want my daughter to have as much opportunity as my son." To which the Leader of the Opposition says "Yeah, I completely agree, but what if men are by physiology or temperament, more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command?" Then ensues another discussion about women's role in modern society, and the other person participating in the discussion says "I think it's very hard to deny that there is an underrepresentation of women," to which the Leader of the Opposition says, "But now, there's an assumption that this is a bad thing." I have looked for a full transcript