I’ve written about this issue at NewMatilda.com, but it still astounds me that respectable (sic) columnists like Andrew Bolt continue to peddle the line that to understand one must experience.

Maxine McKew, who has never had a child herself, spooks me a bit:

As Professor Frank Oberklaid and Professor Fiona Stanley keep saying, babies come out of the womb ready to learn.

Our job as policymakers is to ensure young children have access to a calm, stimulating environment run by professionals…

Get it? Maxine hasn’t herself sprogged so she musn’t dare form an educated opinion about sprogs. Watertight logic, Bolta, and not at all hypocritical. Here are some things that Andrew has recently written about in which he has both qualifications and experience:

• Meteorology
• Islam
• Biodiversity
• Welfare policy
• Water supply
• Crime statistics

I could go on, but you get the idea.