Grace Tame听signalled听that women are not happy with the system,听bravely听pulling听off her widely acclaimed, and听criticised, protest. Markela Panegyres argues women have a lot to be angry about.听
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Jacqueline Kriz reports on a听forum discussing听the limits of the justice听system in delivering听justice to victims/survivors of domestic and family violence.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller鈥檚 proposal听for an app that records consent reveals how willfully ignorant听he and government MPs are about听the institutionalised nature of sexual assault, writes听Isaac Nellist.
Jackie Kriz writes that听the #March4Justice movement needs to keep听mobilising if it wants its听demands to be met.
Pip Hinman reports on the huge #March4Justice protests, organised in 10 days, showing how angry women听are about sexual violence and the way it continues to be excused, dismissed and normalised.
The #March4Justice rallies and marches across the country on March 14-15 are making a clear statement about the need to end sexual violence and rape in workplaces. Kerry Smith reports.
The upsurge in organising against sexual violence shows how far we have come but also how far we need to go, writes Pip Hinman.
The size 鈥 and composition 鈥 of the national vigils for comedian Eurydice Dixon on June 18 has given us some hope that with a growing awareness about violence against women we can achieve at least some of the measures we so desperately need.
Not since the community response to Jill Meagher鈥檚 murder in 2012 have so many people taken to the streets to demand that women have the right to live free of fear.
In a continuation of the rancid rape culture spewing from Australian university and high school campuses, a national grouping of young men identified with the Facebook page 鈥淵eah the Boys鈥, which boasts half a million likes, is spitting chunks onto social media.
The page is receiving attention now because members of the group scheduled a 鈥渕ale-only鈥 meet-up at Sydney's Coogee Beach. While the anonymous 鈥榊eah the Boys鈥 page admins sought to distance themselves from the event, within hours thousands of the page鈥檚 followers had jumped behind it.
A boy is grabbed around the throat, his head is smashed against the ground twice and then a chair is thrown onto him by a security guard. Many people witnessed and reported the incident.
Every activist has at some point been told that activism is pointless today, that it achieves nothing and hasn鈥檛 since the 鈥70s. Others say that there鈥檚 no point to feminist activism in particular because we already have gender equality. A quick look at the issues feminists are struggling for, and the wins we鈥檝e had recently, show that neither claim is true, nor are they likely to be for some time.
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