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…
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…
