** FILE ** Sen. Bill Heffernan, left, walks through the gardens of the Australian parliament building in Canberra, Australia, in this March 19, 2002 file photo. Heffernan, a senior government lawmaker has created a furor by telling a magazine that a female political did not deserve a leadership role because she had decided against having children. Heffernan, a close friend of Prime Minister John Howard, was criticizing Julian Gillard, the deputy leader of the opposition center-left Labor Party, whom he described as "deliberately barren." (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)