The Sunday read: I face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – Full Story podcast
6/13/20266 min
A truck-mounted billboard featuring AI-generated images of Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, which has been travelling around Melbourne for several weeks now, has attracted a lot of scrutiny. It shows Allan wearing a black pointed hat alongside the phrase ‘ditch the witch’. Victorian upper house MP for the Animal Justice party Georgie Purcell, who faces sexist abuse every day as a female MP, argues misogyny isn’t a legitimate expression of political dissatisfaction
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