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President Christine Kangaloo has pushed back against critics who question the impartiality of her Senate appointments and continue to scrutinise her political past, suggesting that gender bias underlies some of the commentary.
Speaking yesterday at the opening of the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business’ Women in Leadership Conference, President Kangaloo addressed recent public criticism over her constitutional role and her background in partisan politics.
“For the last 63 years, ever since independence, commentators have invariably referred to the senators appointed by me in accordance with the Constitution as independent senators. Yet suddenly, for the first time in our history, they now refer to them as the President’s senators,” she said.
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