Australia outback mayor wins annual sexist award

That's the headline and it's just such a surprise to find that it's an Australian that wins such an award, isn't it?

An Australian outback mayor's plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has won him the country's yearly award for outrageous sexism.

Mount Isa Mayor John Malony infuriated women in August with a suggestion that "with five blokes to every girl, may I suggest that beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mount Isa," in northwest Queensland state.

It's also pretty typical that what the winner of one of these awards said was actually true.

If there is a sex imbalance then it's true, women who are "beauty-disadvantaged" are indeed going to do better. That's just simple economics of marketplaces for you.