State Party Takes Aim at Hijabs for Children. Also: Australian Is Shot in U.S., and Julie Bishop on Trump.
On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s "Insiders" on Sunday, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was asked how she would react if President Trump told her, as he told the wife of President Emmanuel Macron of France,
that she was in "good shape." "I’d be taken aback, I think.
Brooke Patterson, a delegate from Southport State Electoral Council, introduced the hijab ban measure
and said, as a member of a school parent group, she had been to asked to design appropriate school uniforms with "sexual modesty coverings." "We need to debate this now, otherwise in three months there will be a Muslim uniform in state schools in Queensland," Ms. Patterson said.
Delegates at the Queensland convention for the opposition Liberal National Party passed an emergency resolution
Sunday urging a ban on head scarves for girls under 10, according to the Australian Associated Press.
that Only Donald Trump,
Ms. Bishop, as the local news media often likes to remind us, is a keen runner — and her comments suggest she’s clearly familiar with the double standards and sexism
that often greet women who occupy power structures dominated by men, who tend to receive far less scrutiny of their physical appearance.
