Labour defends raising column as C-word debate spirals

How one bad word derailed the pay equity debate, writes Ian Taylor (who uses obscene language in this column)

For reasons known only to her, Jan Tinetti used question time to steer the focus away from pay equity to a column with the c-word.

Labour defends raising column as C-word debate spirals

Meanwhile, Labour has rejected the idea that it was a poor political judgment to reference a column using the word in Parliament.

Stuff’s hypocrisy laid bare

May 2018 – article on Ron Mark calling a female MP a petal Sep 2018 – column by Andrea Vance saying people need to play the ball, not the woman, decrying sexist terms against female MPs Jan 2019 – column by Alison Mau decrying sexist comments against women MPs, saying it forces them out of Parliament Feb 2019 – column by Jackie Blue calling for a parliamentary code of conduct to stamp out sexism against female MPs Sep 2020 – column by Alison Mau…