In the Pell case, complainants have equal rights to justice.
Yesterday came the momentous news that Victoria Police have charged Cardinal George Pell with multiple allegations of the crime of sexual abuse of children, following […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
The Damned
This morning I read this tweet from Fairfax journo Ross Gittins: My first thought was, a new kind of human being has emerged. One without […]
Government sinks in the swamp of stupid
This morning, Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge outdid even himself in the stupidity stakes when he admitted that he had released the private data […]
Trump isn’t ironic about women, and neither is Turnbull
The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the month of April is national sexual assault awareness and prevention month was greeted with hollow mirth […]
How marriages based on mistrust hold back all women
I was intrigued yesterday to observe on Twitter a good deal of chatter from conservative religious types on the topic of husbands who refuse to […]
Liberal senator admits 18C changes are designed to win back PHON voters
In case you did not suspect that Malcolm Turnbull’s explosion of piss and wind on Section 18C yesterday was entirely self-serving, this morning on Radio […]
Dutton stigmatises CEOs as no better than women. Wow.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton inexplicably stepped out of his portfolio last week to make commentary on CEOs with an opinion on marriage equality that does […]
How has Centrelink come to normalise contempt?
In The Saturday Paper this weekend there’s an editorial addressing the recent Centrelink scandals that, among other extreme dysfunctions, have seen the private data of […]
Speaking freely of the dead
The death of The Australian’s controversial cartoonist Bill Leak yesterday provoked a storm of polarised emotion on Twitter, as colleagues expressed their shock and sorrow, and […]
How to deal with being raped: two incompatible points of view
On ABC Qanda last night, Icelandic writer Thordis Elva spoke about how she had, over a seventeen year period, communicated with and finally forgiven Australian Tom […]
When you hand over private info, you are not informed of a caveat on confidentiality
Last time you were required to divulge private information to a government agency, did you do so in the belief that the agency would keep […]
“Belief” is not enough to justify legislation to reveal private data
On Thursday, in the midst of public outrage at Human Services Minister Alan Tudge’s doxxing of a Centrelink user, legislation allowing the Department of Veteran’s […]
Just because a govt agency says it wrote you a letter, doesn’t mean it did
One of Human Services Minister Alan Tudge‘s justifications for his aggressive media pursuit of writer, blogger and single mother Andie Fox, is that Centrelink made numerous […]
Tudge releases unauthorised documents, and where are the “leading” feminists?
Please feel free to email, phone or visit this man with your opinions. The Guardian has this afternoon reported that Human Services Minister Alan Tudge “accidentally” […]
No need for Centrelink to prove your comments are adverse: they only need to think so before exposing you to the media
Further to yesterday’s post on the release to Fairfax media of private information by Human Services Minister Alan Tudge, the minister has justified his decision […]