Nanny state meets the matriarchy

Are there 12 Chinese in parliament, because they are 5.5% of the Australian population and proportionally should have 12.43 members in parliament? And how does Penny Wong count towards this? Maybe she could be the .43% that's rounded down. There should also be 7 Indians in parliament. I don't see them.

What about sexual preference? I think the Coalition might actually have the lead in out and proud members of parliament. Does this mean Labor has an LGBTIQ+ problem?

We should also probably include former work histories. I can't even find statistics for the percentage of the population which is union officials, but there sure are a heck of a lot of former ones in the parliamentary Labor party.

Off with their heads.

In Australia, voters elect representatives in single-member electorates. No party can ensure demographic balance without overriding local preselection autonomy - or worse, displacing competent candidates for the sake of optics.

It is another form of elitism, in this case "Mummy knows best". A representative democracy doesn't mean statistically representative, it means that people get to choose.

Are female majorities good? A brave question you might say, but it is just the reverse of the proposition that male majorities aren't good enough.

Here's something to think about.

It is generally thought that women are more risk averse than men, and more prone to be prescriptive and protective.

Does this creeping dominance by women explain the rise of safetyism, and some of our recent governance debacles, like locking whole populations up so they can avoid catching what turned-out to be a relatively mild, for most of us, airborne virus? Or forcing them to take a vaccine, whether they would or not?

Could it explain the regulations which are choking the life out of our productivity? Or the fragility of children, ring fenced from the risky play with dad and each other which is the foundation of a resilient adulthood?

Could it explain why Anthony Albanese is reluctant to spend any money on defence? Or even the extreme reaction of social and mainstream media to military action, particularly when children are hurt?