by BETTINA ARNDT – PREVENTABLE murder. That’s how the West Australian radio show promoted their recent program arguing for new laws to criminalise coercive control laws in that State. The Relationships Australia manager interviewed for the program struggled to describe the type…
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 AUGUSTO ZIMMERMANN – THE dilemma of modern feminism is that it has cut women off from aspects of life that are distinctly female desires. These aspects, among others, include being a wife and raising children, according to UK author Joan Price. …
by BETTINA ARNDT – WE WERE once told feminism was about equality, creating a level playing field where women could take their rightful place in the world. I happily called myself a “feminist” after reading Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, ironically whilst…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WE’VE come a long way from the days when female reviewers grumbled that men won all the star parts in movies whilst female characters were one-dimensional props to hero males. Many of the producers and playwrights churning out…
by BETTINA ARNDT – DOMESTIC violence services are not being properly resourced according to women’s groups, who are demanding funding be doubled. The groups demanding this huge funding boost argue women’s lives depend on this protection: “Every day violence services aren’t fully…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT MAKES a pleasant change to see men fighting back – standing up to bureaucrats revelling in their feminist-bestowed power to crush ordinary blokes. Here are two stories of people facing injustice who took on the authorities and…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S an intriguing photograph of the four people who head up Australia’s Digital Platforms Regulators Forum. A row of smiling women. The control of our county’s high tech online world is firmly in female hands, with not a…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IN A recent judgement about a sexual misconduct case at Cornell University in New York, the judge compared the campus disciplinary committees to the infamous English Star Chambers. He warned that “these threats to due process and academic…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT’S a tragic irony that just as the world is finally waking up to the damage to children who miss out on masculine influence in their lives, the moral panic over sexual abuse is driving away the very…
