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 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A senior Australian government lawmaker has created a furor by telling a magazine that a female politician did not deserve a leadership role because she had decided against having children.
Bill Heffernan, a close friend of Prime Minister John Howard, described Julian Gillard, the deputy leader of the opposition center-left Labor Party, as "deliberately barren."
"If you're a leader, you've got to understand your community," Heffernan, a 64-year-old senator in the center-right Liberal Party, told The Bulletin magazine in its Wednesday edition.
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