What husband? Women's Weekly forgets to mention one small detail in this piece defending the Prime Minister as the victim of sexism. The author is in fact the wife of Craig Thompson, elected as a Labor MP and protected for years by Gillard from allegations of ripping off $400,000 from his former union. She is also a former adviser to a NSW Labor Minister. Arnold's piece actually goes on to accidentally rebut its own argument: It's true most Australians would struggle to think of a single achievement of the Gillard Government. Apart from the obvious, that is: imposing the carbon tax Gillard promised we wouldn't get, crippling the live cattle trade, blowing the Budget and supervising the entry of record numbers of boat people. That, I suggest, may be Gillard's real problem. Reader Phillip, puzzled by the failure of the Women's Weekly to mention Arnold's Labor connections, notes the magazine actually has a very cosy connection with the budding author: