To understand, swap Berejiklian and Maguire

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Women are corrupt too. A sad truth overlooked by the woke. And by the corrupt:

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has leapt to the defence of former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian after she was found to be corrupt, saying “She’s just a very decent person. She chose a bum basically, and he was a bad guy.”

Everywhere I look, cunning corporations are busily feminising the subject to exploit this moral disequilibrium.

So, to get to the appropriate framing of Gladys Berejiklian’s corruption, imagine that she and Daryl Maguire swapped places, and as Premier he failed to:

  • report conflicts of interest;
  • report known corruption by his squeeze;
  • and repeatedly pulling favours for said squeeze’s electorate.
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A sexual misconduct charge would be added in a jiffy.

My point is not to say that corrupt men are unfairly treated in the system (which can be debated another time).

It is to say that we cannot treat corrupt women differently.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.