ABUSED Aboriginal children must be removed from dangerous homes according to indigenous leader Jacinta Price, who says child safety is more important than culture. The backlash from the stolen generation’s “Sorry” campaign has resulted in abused Aboriginal children too often being left in dangerous family environments.
ARE all men and boys misogynistic and inherently sexist and violent towards women? Judged by many of the women demonstrating after the death of the UK’s Sarah Everard, the answer is “yes”.
PHYLLIS Schlafly’s grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment galvanised conservatives for almost two generations and helped reshape American politics.
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Grace Tame spoke at one of the nation-wide “Women’s March 4 Justice” rallies on Monday, calling for an end to sexual violence against women while also making a point to say that men are not the enemy. Speaking at a rally in Hobart, in the southern island state of Tasmania, Ms Tame said all woman had a story of some form of sexual violence or abuse.
THE Australian parliament and the Scott Morrison government are being rocked by an incident where a young female advisor alleges being raped in a minister’s office where she worked after returning from a night’s drinking with colleagues. As a teenage boy seeing his mother beaten and assaulted as a result of domestic violence I’m the first to agree too many women are shamefully abused and victimised by men. At the same time I refuse to believe society is riven with misogyny, that all men are guilty and that women are always passive victims.
CLEMENTINE FORD is an Australian feminist.
Ford spent much of her childhood growing up in the Middle East, specifically in Oman on the eastern border of the United Arab Emirates.
FEMINIST activists have failed to have the Australia Day honour removed from their one-time poster girl Bettina Arndt, despite powerful backing from media and politicians. Ms Arndt, who was awarded the Order of Australia honour in January, fell foul of modern feminists after rejecting claims of a university rape culture, saying there was no evidence to support such assertions.
“The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.”
Everyone needs sandwiches that aren’t filled with hatred – and feminism
