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…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANTHONY Albanese promised a Royal Commission, or something very close to it, into COVID policy. Instead of a Royal Commission, however, we get this. An insider’s non-inquiry designed, deliberately and with some care, to achieve nothing. Not truth….
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 BETTINA ARNDT – WHEN former BHP Billiton’s CEO Andrew Mackenzie addressed shareholders in 2016, he said achieving a 50 per cent female workforce within the decade was a “moral imperative”. This sanctimonious claim was all the more sickening given that his big…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IN THE United Kingdom, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recently announced the government will take action over banks blacklisting customers who hold controversial views. This occurred after leading Brexiter Nigel Farage claimed his bank account had been shut down without…
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 – 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…
