When Rosie Batty stepped down from the Australian of the year and David Morrison stepped up, albeit with considerable controversy after his appointment, there was a consistent demand for the leadership of the country to proactively address sexism and violence against women. While this columnist has recently highlighted the current government’s continuing misogynous approach to […]
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Misogyny in Legislation
Legislated law consists of the rules and sanctions to which a society agrees. But legislation may itself be immoral or moral such the facilitation of slavery Australia once engaged in or the apparent abolition of slavery. The founders of many western countries believed that emerging legislation would often required a constitution for a baseline moral […]