NSW Premier Chris Minns has announced significant changes to the way sexual assault trials are conducted, including moving to curb “rape myth questions”.

Talking to your kids about consent can be anxiety-inducing. What can be even harder is having that conversation with your parents, in-laws, uncles and aunts. But, with consent education becoming mandatory around the country, there are strategies parents can learn if they want to bring those lessons back to home-base.

In 1912, Louis Sullivan was convicted in a Perth court of ‘carnal knowledge of a girl under 16’ after Ila Collins told a court that he raped her. The conviction was overturned on appeal because the primary witnesses were Ila and her mother. At the…

I've been writing about men's violence against women, particularly the way it is often poorly depicted in media, for too many years now. So on the rare occasions when mainstream media tells women's stories well, I get dozens of messages telling me…

Impact by Jane Gilmore I first wrote this piece in 2017. I had been writing a lot about the gender pay gap and how the official figure was not just underestimating the problem, it was actually misleading in how little it described the realities of…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Scott Morrison hijacked the National Women’s Safety Summit to brag about his government’s achievements on sexual harassment law. This despite the fact that less than a week ago his government passed legislation…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Melbourne is still recovering from the lockdowns that turned most of 2020 into a lonely, panic-stricken haze. And yet, as we’re facing another potential COVID outbreak, vaccine hesitancy is still a problem for…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email The man who earned the moniker “Scotty from Marketing” by his near obsession with spin over substance has apparently had a moment of deep sincerity. One conveniently recorded and uploaded to YouTube for all to…

Photo: TND Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Two women and a baby girl were killed last week, allegedly by violent, abusive men. Amid all the grief and rage we had politicians holding press conferences about how awful it is, and police…

After failing so comprehensively to understand women’s experience of rape that nearly 100,000 women felt compelled to march in protest, you might think the government would take consent education seriously. Not only because it would be the…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email There are very few women in Australia who haven’t experienced bad behaviour from men. Put a group of women in a room and almost all have at least one story to tell – ranging from sleazy or uncomfortable through…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Scott Morrison’s responses to allegations of rape and sexual harassment in Parliament House have been described as “fumbled” or “mishandled”, as if the past month has been a series of unconnected minor…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Across the country on Monday, tens of thousands of women marched to protest against gendered injustice. They left the jobs that don’t pay them enough. They left their unequal burden of unpaid work. They left…

Photo: TND/Getty Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email What does a rapist look like? A few years ago, I was talking to a professional football player about men’s violence against women. He told me that no man he knew had ever been violent to a…

Twitter Facebook Reddit Pinterest Email Last week the AFP sent a stern warning to federal MPs about the dangers of failing to report crimes – such as rape – to police. Parliamentarians and the worst elements of the social media swill latched onto…

Violence in Australia has been steadily decreasing for the last 20 years. The homicide rate, for example, has dropped by more than 60 percent since 1993. Kidnapping and abductions have halved over the same time. National data on assault is more…

Despite claims from certain sections of the media, last night’s Four Corners report on the toxic culture of the Canberra bubble’s is not a “sex scandal”. Labelling it as such erases the report’s disturbing revelations and frames them as a grubby…

White Ribbon failed miserably in its first iteration in Australia and only recently started up again under new leadership. The name retains enormous goodwill. It is one of the few organisations that encourages men to be part of the solution to…

Imagine a dating app that asked you to review your dates. After every encounter you’d get a request for feedback, just as you do with so many other apps. You could rate your date out of five and add a comment. There would also be a rating for how…

Expecting either of the major political parties to ride a white horse into budget night and lay the severed head of the patriarchy at the feet of Australian women is a wildly unrealistic (albeit entertaining) fantasy. It does seem reasonable,…