by BETTINA ARNDT – THE Australian media pack went into a frenzy last week. They’d finally broken through the legal barriers protecting Bruce Lehrmann from being named as the “high profile” man who’d been accused of rape in Toowoomba, in Southern Queensland. …
by BETTINA ARNDT – REMEMBER how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing the frequency of false allegations of sexual assault? That broke the rules prohibiting jury members from accessing outside…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT IS hardly surprising Federal Transport Minister Catherine King is trying to avoid scrutiny over her decision to reject more flights for Qatar Airlines due to her concern about the Doha strip search. Here was ideology trumping proper…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S a big push to force universities “to do more” about sexual assault on campus, with the “Teal” independents leading the charge. “All of us women who have attended tertiary facilities in Australia know someone who has been…
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…
