FLAT WHITE The Spectator Australia Bettina Arndt Bettina Arndt 24 August 2022 4:00 AM Every day, men are mown down by petty bureaucrats revelling in their feminist-bestowed power to crush ordinary blokes. With my correspondence bearing witness to the ongoing massacre, it’s a thrill to occasionally see someone take them on and win. This week
Day: 6 September 2022
Complainant’s History of False Sexual Assault Allegations is Inadmissible
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au 13/07/2020 BY SONIA HICKEY & UGUR NEDIM Print In a recent decision, a five judge bench of the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) ruled that legislation which prevents criminal defence lawyers from asking questions to complainants in sexual assault cases about their sexual history extends to prohibiting defence lawyers from raising evidence of false sexual
Feminism’s new war on men will backfire on us all
ANGELA SHANAHAN The causes of sexual violence are complex and often involve the pathologies that plague our whole society, both men and women. Picture: EPA 12:00AM MAY 29, 2021 644 COMMENTS There is a war going on in Australia, which has spread from other parts of the developed world, and it isn’t the fight against Covid-19.
Women’s long march through the Australian public service
Whatever happened to gender equality? Bettina Arndt Aug 9 Have our governments lost the plot? Last month we learned that the ACT government is requiring successful tenders for the build of a new school to have a 100 per cent female management team on site. We’re talking about the construction industry, where women represent only
How ‘Fine’ are the Boys Actually Doing?
Robert Franklin August 2, 2022 One way to avoid addressing a problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist. Another is to deflect attention from that problem to another. Still another is the use of intellectual dishonesty to obscure the problem. There are all sorts of ways, but the aim of each is the same –
Sexist attacks on men won’t advance gender equality
The Australian Sexist attacks on men won’t advance gender equality (theaustralian.com.au) JANET ALBRECHTSEN Follow When you follow someone, you’ll see their latest stories on your homepage in the ‘Following’ section. 12:00AM JULY 6, 2022 521 COMMENTS Abraham Lincoln is credited with one of the best pieces of advice for everyone from old-style academic feminists to corporate
Divorce Court Demolition
From Chronicles – a magazine of American Culture https://chroniclesmagazine.org/featured/divorce-court-demolition/ Stephen Baskerville writing about Greg Ellis’s new book, The Respondent – about his experiences in the American Family Law system, but it could just as well be describing the situation in Australia. Note the misuse of domestic violence claims and false allegations. The recognised tools being
Fifty years of lies about domestic violence
Bettina Arndt Bettina Arndt 27 September 2021 4:08 PM Exactly fifty years ago, the world’s first refuge for women fleeing domestic violence opened in London. After her small Chiswick terrace quickly filled to overflowing, the next twelve years became a constant scramble for founder Erin Pizzey as she set up dozens of women’s refuges by
Erasing mothers’ violence towards their children
Bettina Arndt 14 December 2021 4:00 AM When the Howard government introduced family law reforms encouraging shared parenting, Australia led the world in supporting children’s rights to have both divorced parents actively involved in their care. Now, fifteen years later, these reforms have been derailed by claims this puts youngsters at risk through exposing them
Fatherlessness: Still a Mystery to so Many
The Word of Damocles VIEW CART Robert Franklin Twice recently, I’ve made the point that, as much as we weep into our hankies about the problem of fatherlessness, we’re not serious. We know we’re not because, for many decades now, we’ve doggedly refused to confront the problem we created. The reasons for that are many