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 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…
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 – SCOTLAND is currently pushing ahead of Australia in the feminist drive to see more men behind bars but no doubt we will catch up soon. Their latest plan, announced in a proposed criminal justice bill last week, involves…
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…
