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 – 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 – 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 SEAN BURKE – BRITTANY Higgins was betrayed by her own “shonky story” – not the criminal justice system, according to leading social commentator Bettina Arndt. Ms Arndt said the former Liberal Party staffer, who alleged she was raped by an office colleague,…
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 – 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…
by BETTINA ARNDT – WHILE our country recovers from the lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare – the year their sons were accused of sexual assault. …
by BETTINA ARNDT – TALK about a meltdown. The explosive reaction from Liberal troops seeking votes for NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman at the voting centre in his local electorate was not unexpected. The cause of their wrath was a group of…
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…
