Condemned by much of the media but celebrated by the public, Guardian readers say this is the most unforgettable moment of Australian TV history
• Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech voted ‘most unforgettable’ moment in Australian TV history
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When then opposition leader Tony Abbott challenged prime minister Julia Gillard to sack Speaker Peter Slipper – following the revelation of misogynistic text messages he had sent – the words he used hit her hard: “This Speaker’s standards are this prime minister’s standards,” Abbott said, and Gillard “led a government that should already have died of shame”.
According to Gillard, this was just the latest in a long line of sexist behaviour and gendered double-standards she had endured through her career – by Abbott, by his party, by the entire system. “After every sexist thing directed at me that I’d bitten my lip on, now I was going to be accused of sexism – the unfairness of that,” Gillard has said of that moment. “That anger propelled it.”
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