Schooling Senator Hinch
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, January 17 2019, the body of 21-year-old Palestinian student Aiia Maasarwe was found next to a Bundoora shopping centre in Melbourne. […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Dear Turnbull and Shorten: Don’t wear the White Ribbon next time around
In December 2017, following sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood and Westminster, a report into the sexual harassment complaints process in the Australian Federal Parliament concluded that procedures […]
Turnbull, the self-made man. Seriously?
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them … I […]
Two female NSW Ministers for Women oppose women’s health, safety and well-being
It says a great deal about our society and nothing much good, that women attending clinics and hospitals providing abortions are subject to harassment and […]
Cash and Joyce, slut-shaming women. It’s the LNP way.
In the last few days, women have been thrown under more buses than usual by members of the Turnbull government, making something of a mockery […]
The investigation you have when you’re not having an investigation: Turnbull, Joyce and Parkinson
Two days before former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce resigned last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull referred allegations that Joyce had breached ministerial standards to Martin […]
In response to Jacqueline Maley
After reading this piece by Jacqueline Maley titled “The Barnaby Joyce affair: when men make abysmal choices women pay the price,” I’m more than a […]
Turnbull’s latest bag of tripe
One hardly knows where to begin. Yesterday, Head Galoot Malcolm Turnbull announced that in an effort to curb the apparent enthusiasm of his ministers for […]
Gaslighting. When media deny collusion.
In this discussion between journalists Malcolm Farr, Alice Workman, Caroline Overington and Fran Kelly yesterday, Farr and Workman take a swipe at those of us […]
The Joyce affair: how the media didn’t know about it for sure until yesterday. No, really.
Over the last twenty-four hours, since the Daily Telegraph revealed the worst-kept secret of 2017, there’s been a deluge of rather plaintive articles from journalists […]
When one woman’s “bad sex” is another woman’s sexual assault
You may have read the story published recently by Babe, in which an anonymous woman, Grace, tells of an evening she spent with actor and comedian […]
Notes from an expert survivor
Of the 400 hundred or so recommendations in the Royal Commission’s final report on institutionalised child sex abuse, two were at the forefront of discussions […]
In Turnbull’s skewed moral universe only “good” survivors get recognition
The Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse hadn’t quite concluded when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Social Security Minister Christian Porter embarked on their […]
Ruddock: The man who called a refugee child “it”
In August 2001, 6 year-old Shayan Badraie, an Iranian asylum seeker who arrived by boat in Australia with his family, became seriously ill with chronic post-traumatic stress […]
Media must ask LNP: Do you intend to allow the Manus refugees to die?
Since the days of the Tampa, seventeen years ago, I’ve heard it said repeatedly that Australians don’t care about what happens to asylum seekers and […]