by BETTINA ARNDT – HOW quickly can men respond to a female red flag? That’s a critical issue highlighted by our new affirmative consent laws, where not only is consent required throughout sexual activity, but women can pull the plug whenever they…
by BETTINA ARNDT – KATE Jenkins may have retired from her job as Sex Discrimination Commissioner, but she’s done a brilliant job in ensuring her future employment. Late last year she was boasting on Instagram about her masterstroke: “Having recommended the new…
by PAUL COLLITS – QUELLE horreur! This could set Australian-Franco relations back decades. All that good work we did defending the French against the Prussians at Fromelles, the Somme, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Villers-Bretonneux, Hamel, Amiens and Mont St Quentin in World War…
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 JESSIE ZHANG – TRADITIONAL notions of a family – comprising a mother, a father and their kids – are being redefined, according to a recent survey of nearly 6000 Australians. The research reveals a society embracing an evolving concept of family,…
by BETTINA ARNDT – EARLIER this month, the lawns of Parliament House featured 2500 empty shoes, one shoe for each of the men and boys who die in this country each year through suicide. This powerful memorial event was sponsored by the…
TASLIMA Nasrin is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist and secular humanist.
She is known for her writing on women’s oppression and criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death.
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 – 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…
