Abbott ducks Clinton's women comments

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 10 Juni 2014 | 23.47

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott says he's hopeful of being able to meet with Hillary Clinton while he is in the US.

But he won't be buying into her comments about Julia Gillard.

The former First Lady, secretary of state and potential Democrats presidential candidate is in New York promoting her new book, Hard Choices.

In the book Ms Clinton writes that leaders such as former Australian prime minister Gillard have faced "outrageous sexism which should not be tolerated in any country".

She goes on to say that women in public office face an "unfair double standard".

Mr Abbott told reporters in New York - where he rang the bell to open the stock exchange and laid a wreath at the National September 11 Memorial - that he acknowledged Ms Gillard faced "all sorts of difficulties" in office.

"But every prime minister faces all sorts of difficulties in his or her time as prime minister," he said.

Mr Abbott was the target of the now famous Gillard "misogyny" speech in federal parliament in October 2012.

He said he hoped to meet Ms Clinton while he was in the US.

"I think she was a highly creditable secretary of state, but beyond that I won't comment."

Meanwhile, the prime minister has extended the term of Australian ambassador to the US Kim Beazley by a year to take the former Labor leader's diplomatic post up to the next presidential election.


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