Bettina Arndt’s article below starts off with the high-earning lollipop ladies, but its central theme is the gigantic screwing of men through DEI policy. Feminists have achieved that degree of power that they can blackmail and bully companies into accepting quotas of females merely because they are female. This is an irrational policy that weakens Australia, especially its business sector, which relies on employing the best people for the job.
If Pauline Hanson undertakes to destroy DEI policy with its weakening of Australia’s businesses, she’ll have the votes of the majority of Australians, particularly men.
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The Lollipop Ladies
– The women we love to hate.
Bettina Arndt, Mar 20, 2026
It’s easy to see why Melbourne’s Swinburne University promoted Aimee Stanton as one of their “pioneers for women.” She’s blond, lively, attractive and she’s a “celebrity”, having been a contestant on Australian Survivor and a presenter on a Channel 7 television program.
Most important of all, she’s a qualified female plumber – a very rare breed indeed. No wonder Swinburne couldn’t resist including her in many media stories, including their Stories for a Brighter Tomorrow promotion, with a whole page dedicated to this Swinburne alum who “survived and thrived as a lady tradie”.
The university was obviously very happy to overlook Ms Stanton’s blemishes. Minor defects like being a self-confessed perpetrator of sexual assault.