Credlin exposes the left’s weaponisation of sexism amid ‘Ditch the Witch’ controversy

But first, driving around the streets of Melbourne is this truck and billboard.And it's what it says about the Premier Jacinta Allen that's caused great controversy over the past 24 hours.And yes, it harks back to another time in federal politics, and that's where it gets interesting.Now, the billboard reads, Ditch the Witch.And it's a political ad funded by a Melbourne brothel owner, along with other businesses that are angry at the way Labor and Allen are running the state.Well, first up, a brothel owner that's got a sexist view of women.

You shock me.And while it's been roundly condemned today, he's got what he's wanted, hasn't he?Wall -to -wall media coverage of the billboard, kicked along, of course, by the permanent outrage machine on the left of politics, in this country whenever a woman of the left pops any heat.Not a woman on the right, I hasten to say, only a left -wing woman.But I'll get to that in a moment.Here's the Prime Minister with his outrage this morning.

You can have a disagreement with people's policy position by all means.You don't have to denigrate people in such a personal way.It has got to stop.

Well, first up, it strikes me as completely hypocritical for Anthony Albanese to rail against misogyny when he presides over laws in this country that diminish the biological rights of women and girls.Laws that he could fix tomorrow in the parliament if he was just prepared to put the word woman back into the sex discrimination act.And it was Albanese who appointed this woman, Dr. Anna Cody, as his government's sex discrimination commissioner.And it was this commission that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, your taxpayer dollars, involving themselves in Sal Grover's appeal through the courts.After she refused to let biological man Roxane Tickleinto her women's -only online group.

who applies for a job, for example, and it is a trans woman, and she may be asked whether or not she intends to have children, and if she replies, yes, I do, and then doesn't get the job because that employer doesn't want to employ women who may be of childbearing age, then she may have been subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of potential pregnancy.

As I said, there's currently a bill before the federal parliament that would fix all of this nonsense.But Albanese refuses to bring it on for debate.So please spare me the crocodile tears about women.Or this from his predecessor, Julia Gillard, who issued a statement overnight from London condemning the billboard, saying that she was disgusted by the sign and that she was saddened to see, she says, quote, this old, tired trope resurrected.Now, by that, she means the ditch the witch slogan.infamously held up by a protester at an anti -carbon tax rally at the front of Parliament House in Canberra a decade ago.

Now back then, even though the Liberals had nothing to do with the sign, they still copped the outrage from the left.With commentators and Labor MPs directing their anger at then opposition leader Tony Abbott, who stood on a stage to address the crowd and was photographed with the sign that was then held up behind him.Now I was there at the time and Abbott had nothing to do with it.could not even see who or what was behind him, but nonetheless, said Labor, he was to blame.And it became yet another part of Gillard's claim to professional victimhood.Indeed, misogyny has been Gillard's calling card, her moneymaker, ever since she was dumped as Prime Minister by her

Labor colleagues.Yes, she conveniently stopped short of accusing them of misogyny, doesn't she?Albanese included, who all helped to roll her.But what riles me about Gillard's misogyny shtick then and now is that she herself presided over the greatest act of legislative misogyny against women in this country that we have ever seen.when she gutted the Sex Discrimination Act to completely remove our biological rights.

Julia Gillard, it has to be noted, has dined out for the past, better part of the past decade on being the first woman prime minister in Australia.And I will say this, I will not be lectured on misogyny by that woman.While she was there, being the first woman prime minister, her government put the groundwork to make this happen.

I stand with Sel Grover on this.I mean, how dare Gillard claim to be this great champion of women when two days before she was rolled, she forced through changes without proper scrutiny.And even today, there's been no apology from her about what these changes have done to the rights of women and girls in Australia.Now, overseas in the UK, where she now lives, even Keir Starmer's Labor Party's woken up and put back in law and government policy.the rights of biological women after a series of landmark legal decisions, but also here in Australia.And it is to Gillard's great shame that her legacy, her everlasting legacy as this country's first female prime minister, is that her record on women is worse than any record from any of the male prime ministers.

And Jacinta Allen too, let's not miss her here and her record on women.Now, sure, she's bearing the brunt of this latest negative political hit.but her hands, like Gillard's, they're not clean either.As Daniel Andrews' deputy, Alan changed the law to now allow any man in Victoria to tick a box online and become a woman with a new birth certificate, reinforcing that biological lie.And with this change, this man, now able to call himself a transgender woman in Victoria, He can access female change rooms, toilets, domestic violence shelters, indeed female prisons.So yes, Ditch the Witch is sexist and wrong.

But so too is the case of a father with a penis who raped his own daughter being held in a women's prison because he now says he's a transgender woman.If we want to grade what here is the worst transgression towards women in Victoria, I think it's pretty obvious.I don't like sexism in politics, no fair -minded person does, but I'm hardly sick of all the double standards on the left.Both Gillard and Albanese were there in the parliament when I copped horrific abuse from Clive Palmer over the fact that I could not have children.that I was using IVF and that somehow, because I was trying to get pregnant, I suppose, that I was responsible for Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme, when the facts show that this was something he announced long before I ever worked for him.Now, as a staffer, I had no way to defend myself publicly back then.

Unlike now, there's a good example, obviously, with James Ashby.Back in my day, staff were never allowed to do media.And so I copped it again and again and again.Now, if I had the choice, Between what was said about me at the time by Palmer and others and a ditch the witch billboard, well neither are great, but honestly, the witch sign would have been water off a duck's back.So bad was the other stuff.Perhaps because of what she's copped too, Pauline Hanson was pretty direct in her response to the billboard attack on the Victorian Premier.

Right, if you've seen what's happened to me over the years, I remember years ago Tim Fisher called me a witch and I should be burned at the stake.So I've been tagged that long before you.So anyway, it's just toughen up and besides Jacinda, I'll tell you something, I've heard on the grapevine you won't be there in a couple of weeks time.I think they're ready to move you on.

Look, I know what Labor's trying to do here with this play.And that's to pick up sympathy for Alan or to allow the perception to grow that somehow the Liberals are behind these billboard signs.Now, of course they're not.And the Liberal leader Jess Wilson today condemned them.But what's clear is that Wilson didn't allow it to become a distraction as she focused on her push to defeat Jacinta Allen.

Of course it's inappropriate and that sort of language, that sort of discourse should never be used in politics and we shouldn't see this happening on our streets.As I said, it's not appropriate language.It's not appropriate language when we're talking about what is going wrong in this state and the many concerns in this state.There are many criticisms of Premier Jacinta Allen and there are many legitimate criticisms, like the fact that we're standing here today because police stations keep closing their doors.

Jacinta Allen is struggling in the polls.Rumours are at fever pitch that her colleagues will roll her within the next fortnight.Not because she's a woman, but because she's an appalling Premier and has presided over corruption on a grand scale and crime statistics that are a national disgrace.With a $200 billion debtno plan to pay off any of it, and businesses fleeing the state, a sexist billboard is the least of her worries.And believe me, voters are not the slightest bit interested in any of this.

The baseball bats are out for Labor in Victoria.That's the reality of it.Bad billboards or not, whether the premiers are bloke or a woman.