Female politicians should be free to act like men

Aaron PatrickSenior correspondent

Sep 25, 2018 – 11.00pm

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Four drivers of the male psyche have proven stubbornly resistant to taming over the millennia: power, wealth, recognition and sex.

Perhaps the Australian Parliament, "shocked" by the bullying allegations of female MPs, is the institution that can finally alter male behaviour.

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