Remember the Mount Isa mayor John Malony (bless) who was looking for ugly women to head to his town because of a woman shortage and a man overload? Well he just won himself an award and he is damn proud of it. Yes, he is this years Gold winner of the sexist award known as the Ernie. The Ernie Awards is held every year to honor the biggest chauvinist pig in Australia. The event is a woman’s only affair and the winners are judged by the amount of booing, feet stamping and jeering given as nominees and their sexist incidents are called out. There are 10 categories and John Maloney won the top honor, just pipping out West Australia politician Troy Buswell for his bra snapping and chair sniffing incidents.Other winners were: Channel Nine for sacking a female reporter whilst on maternity leave ; news chief John Westacott allegedly saying female reporters needed to be sexually alluring; Solicitor Roland Day for this little charmer about a 13 year old sexual assault victim “‘Never at any stage did this witness show upset, exhaustion or stress. In fact in my respectful opinion there was a level of enjoyment at the attention’,” ; Sam Newman won for his general disrespect of women (incidents far too numerous to mention) ; Rugby Union international Brendan Cannon won a “good Ernie” for his “I don’t want my daughter Phoebe growing up in the country where almost all women will be victims of physical violence or sexual abuse during their lifetimes.”.

Oh and just so you don’t think the awards are sexist, they do have a “Elaine” award which went to politician Sophie Mirabella who made comments about Deputy Prime Minister Gillian Gillard being childless.
The awards have been running for over ten years and were named after the king of sexism former trade union secretary Ernie Ecob.