Ours is worse than yours

She would get $$$$ TON of publicity on her private life. Everyone in the US would probably know the exact time and dates of all physical interactions along with very lengthy discussions on whether or not she was doing it right. This would be interrupted only by daily fashion updates on how much her outfits cost and by what designers with a lengthy discussion on whether that is the best outfit choose for the situation and whether she should have gone with another designer. Then there would be some interest in bedsheets and bedroom decor. That would be the subject of the political blogs. Of course, there also might be some rampant speculation on whether she has a crush/affair with other male world leaders and whether or not she would spend the night. Of course, the US tabloids would focus on possible illegitimate children and past affairs.

Julia is a woman? Jeez, I had not noticed! What about the fact that she speaks with too much of an Austrayan accent and not the well spoken eloquent accent that you would expect of a PM. You could have added that in too. And the fact that she is a politician....very hard to find good ones of them! She would't last ten minutes as leader of the USA, I could not imagine them voting for her at all!

Sounds rather good actually all the best urban

We've seen a woman president recently and she turned out to be very extravagant in an era when austerity measures were essential. Pratibha Patil is absolute non-entity for sure because she is too old to waste news print on, even with her expensive clothing. I wouldnt even be able to recognize her voice, if I heard it sometime. She certainly didnt deserve to be the President of our country - because she is bad one for first woman president of the country. As to the powerful lady, Indira Gandhi, she made India Pakistan enemity unsurmountable. You would think women without children and marriage would be inclined to be normal. Oh no! They are not. We have a chief minister of a province who flaunted her wealth to celebrate her friend's son's marriage. The expense would have fed the poor in her state for at least 6 months. These are the specimens we can boast of. In contrast your lady has nothing great to be noticed, right?

Well done lash. Sometimes I think you know our politics better than we do. Can you teach people here what you see?

from your list i get your biggest problem is that she's a women?if so then i think you got a really big problem...domacracy is actually based on equal rights so if your only objection of her is the gender then you ain't got much of an argument there

Are these complaints from your fellow Australians or are they compliments? They seem to be compliments. How else would she be enjoying that position. I have been watching that no one bothers about any one's personal life when it comes to choosing their leader. While complaints against Obama are a result of whatever developments that have take place in the now, what you have listed here hardly calls for a debate.

I live too far from Australia and I don't know your PM. But you shouldn't complain, it could be worse. Imagine that you had a woman like Angela Merkel

I'm pretty sure to be president of the USA you have to be married, have children, and be born in the US. Though the first 2 aren't written and the last one some people might argue with now. Oh and over 35, but I guess that's covered. Nonetheless despite all the controversy, the right wing women here would be the most upset followed by the rest of the right. The left probably wouldn't care. Reminds me though, I once had a teacher who many many years ago told me we'd have a black president before we'd have a female president. Guess she was right, even though at the time it seemed liked either was 100 years off, guess it turned out to be more like 12.

Ours called a woman "stinking gypsy " so i don`t think you`ll find worse than that.