by BETTINA ARNDT – WHY does our media keep getting the law totally wrong about intoxication and consent – with the result that more young men are finding themselves wrongfully accused of rape? Late last year, The ABC’s 7.30 Report featured a…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ONE of the things that seems to have been irrevocably killed-off in today’s woke feminist world, is the art of seduction. Forget the theme songs of many Hollywood movies that entertained teenagers and their parents in the 50s…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IT WAS a riveting moment. Here was Tasha Smithies, a lawyer for Channel 10, appearing as a witness in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation action. This is the lawyer who advised television celebrity Lisa Wilkinson to go ahead with the…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – RECENTLY, I recounted how, as a young journalist in the Swinging Sixties, I had been ordered to drive through a Category 4 cyclone to report for work by a boss I described as an addition to the Holy…
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 PAUL COLLITS – BRUCE Lehrmann is back on the front pages accused yet again of rape. Yes, rape. Queensland-style rape. To be more precise, intercourse without a condom. At least that is what I understand he has, this time, been accused…
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 – 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 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 – 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…
