Bodies that matter. Bodies that don’t.
It’s profoundly concerning that Abyan, the Somali refugee currently living on Nauru and victim of a rape that left her pregnant, was forbidden to see […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Turnbull’s actions should carry a trigger warning for all women who have survived sexual violence
At a time when we are struggling in this country with the death of two women every week from male-perpetrated domestic violence, and the physical, […]
Turnbull and Dutton wage war on women
When Tony Abbott was Prime Minister it was difficult to imagine myself feeling more contempt and loathing for any politician than the contempt and loathing […]
Turnbull: women must be respected but only if they are of our tribe
If you can take away the freedom of one man [sic] you strike at the liberty of all. I don’t think the truth of that […]
Give us shelter: why new DV funding isn’t anywhere near enough
The Turnbull government’s announcement last week of $100 million worth of funding to address domestic violence is better than silence, and goes to some small […]
Credlin: It’s not me, it’s them
There’s a point in just about any desirable human characteristic when it can tip over into pathology, and self-confidence is no exception. Former Prime Minister […]
I did not have sex with that pig
British Prime Minister David Cameron was overnight accused of having indulged in a tastelessly demeaning act of necro-bestiality in Delingpole’s rooms at the Pickwater Quad, […]
The relief of being relieved of a liar
(This is an update of a piece I posted in November 2014). Wednesday September 16 2015. ABC News: We asked how you felt about Malcolm […]
Behind every man . . .
According to Paul Sheehan, the Abbott coup wasn’t entirely about the ex-PM. It was about his Chief of Staff, Peta Credlin. The allegedly widely-loathed and […]
Minister for Women, you are CRAP at your job
In what other portfolio would a minister who remains consistently silent about his responsibilities to the huge demographic covered by that portfolio, even in the […]
Domestic violence and the bourgeoisie
In the last few weeks two rather disparate male journalists, Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Saturday Paper and Mark Latham, late of the Australian Financial Review, […]
Dyson Heydon is an honourable man, says you know who
What is notable in the impassioned defence of Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Attorney-General George Brandis, and Christopher Pyne (what’s he […]
Abbott says SSM is a deeply personal issue … but you can’t have a free vote. What?
Two notable outcomes resulted from the Coalition’s six and a half hour joint party room meeting called to debate the legalising of same-sex marriage last […]
Tony Abbott: is the cur taking a whipping?
This could well be wishful thinking on my part, however… Yesterday, as I watched the anointing of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
The Pynes have never seen the fireworks . . . Right this wrong!
In defending a $5000 cost for Christopher Pyne and three of his family members to fly to Sydney from Adelaide over the Christmas/New Year period, a […]