by BETTINA ARNDT – WHEN former BHP Billiton’s CEO Andrew Mackenzie addressed shareholders in 2016, he said achieving a 50 per cent female workforce within the decade was a “moral imperative”. This sanctimonious claim was all the more sickening given that his big…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THE recent resignation of ACT prosecutor Shane Drumgold comes as no surprise. Commissioner Walter Sofronoff’s report on the ACT inquiry into the Britanny Higgins case offers a forensic analysis of the prosecutor’s “serious misconduct,” providing a firm basis…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IN THE United Kingdom, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recently announced the government will take action over banks blacklisting customers who hold controversial views. This occurred after leading Brexiter Nigel Farage claimed his bank account had been shut down without…
by BETTINA ARNDT – BRITTANY Higgins has crashed from her pedestal, potentially bringing with her key government ministers. The silencing of proper public debate about the weaponisation of this pivotal rape case has ended, revealing widespread community contempt about the way this…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHAT brilliant timing. Last month, Senator Lidia Thorpe’s sexual accusations in parliament captivated the media by putting sexual misconduct firmly back on the public agenda, detracting attention from Labor ministers under attack for misleading parliament. The Australian press…
by BETTINA ARNDT – HANG onto your seats, folks. This is the cultural moment we’ve been awaiting so long. This past week the ground shifted, shattering the “believe-all-women” straight-jacket imposed on us by feminists for the past decade or two. The most…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THE crowd in the open-air tourist bus gazed up at the massive granite wall towering over us in the Yosemite Valley. This was El Capitan, the setting for the movie Free Solo’s nail-biting documentary of Alex Honnold’s infamous…
by BETTINA ARNDT – SCOTLAND is currently pushing ahead of Australia in the feminist drive to see more men behind bars but no doubt we will catch up soon. Their latest plan, announced in a proposed criminal justice bill last week, involves…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WOMEN work harder than men. That was the sexist headline for an article earlier this year on The Conversation. Hardly unusual, given that the overburdened woman is a favoured theme with our media intent on singing women’s praises…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S much to admire about JK Rowling. Her Harry Potter series inspired generations of children, particularly boys, to read big, fat books and that’s a miraculous achievement. More recently she’s been in the news for bravely taking on…
