Agree. Hard fact: our community includes very large numbers of men who abuse women in many forms, including rape and murder. This schizophrenic dance between 'it's not all men' and 'we're all responsible' makes it easy to throw up our collective hands and do nothing.

If this were true it would be sad, but literally nothing Scott did in his public life gave anyone a reason to believe anything he says now

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Love to you Moz

Free speech has limits, and this film sits outside them, writes marquelawyers, in a piece about the federal eSafety commissioner issuing notices to Meta and X over footage of the Wakeley stabbing.
crikey.com.au/2024/04/24/fre…

Intimate partner violence by men against women has been normalised as an expected environmental hazard, while a man randomly stabbing women in a shopping centre has not. That's why the difference in response.

India continues its slide to theocratic one-party rule.

The ABC rolling out its new career rehab service for the Coalition and friends

Interesting move from a regulator who's been given teeth

Struggling to think of anyone who has ever restored their reputation by suing for defamation, but looking forward to Linda Reynolds being the first.

People say the Liberal Party isn't working hard enough to win back women's votes, yet here is Linda putting in overtime to secure Janet's affections smh.com.au/cbd/linda-reyn…

Gloves provided

The more the Coalition keeps plugging the misrepresentation that Climate 200 is a political party, the more seats community independents are going to take from it (with financial support from Climate 200). It's self-defeating artifice.

Johnny Turk was a Muslim don't you know

The fact that Linda Reynolds thinks she was 'vindicated' by the outcome of a case in which she did not give evidence and to which she was irrelevant, suggests that she has about as much idea as Lehrmann did about what her own defamation case is going to expose her to.

Karma

On the question of what can you safely now call Bruce Lehrmann in light of the Federal Court's judgment, the answer is 'rapist'. You can't call him a convicted rapist, because he isn't.

We keep being asked if Lehrmann can be tried on the ACT rape charge again. The answer is yes, it’s possible, but the probability depends on things neither we nor you know so the speculation is pointless.

And no, the civil defamation verdict has no relevance in a criminal court.

Right up there with Tony and Scott as a master practitioner of tone deafness in pivotal cultural moments

Media, who have learnt to treat everything including climate catastrophe, rape and genocide as issues they can both-sides for their entertainment value, now expressing bewildered concern that social cohesion seems to be breaking down for some reason