As a lawyer for CSR defending the company from claims being made by mesothelioma sufferers, Julie Bishop asked the court why workers should be entitled to jump the court queues to have their cases heard, just because they were dying?

As Tony Abbott continues to embarrass and offend on both the world and domestic stage, even Alan Jones of "chaff bag" fame seems to be calling for Abbott to either do something to stop this debacle or to move aside.

Julie Bishop is being touted in a wide range of media formats as a possible replacement leader with air-brushed image polishing in Harper's Bazaar to name just one prominent magazine.

Personally, after the treatment meted out to PM Julia Gillard by the Murdoch press and the likes of Alan Jones, I can't imagine the LNP tolerating a woman at the head of their blue-tie boys club and I can't see the Prime Minister for Women giving her the nod, especially as it will be his job on offer.

The government is obviously in a lot of bother on numerous fronts with a stalled budget, international condemnation of their climate policy (or lack of) and the disgrace that is our "Operation Sovereign Borders" under Minister Scott Morrison. However to see Bishop as a panacea is an insult not only to those who suffered and died waiting for their day in court against CSR, but also to women in general following her trashing of the progress made by the women's movements of the last century in her disavowal of any part that Feminism might have played in her reaching her current position.

All of this would be entertaining if were not for the damage being done to our nation by this 'Opposition in Government' both economically and to the national reputation.

Phil Armour, 

Yass