For thirty years I have believed that, when it wants to, Australian public culture defaults to its misogynistic normal in justifying a woman be disciplined or punished for an event or outcome with which they may have absolutely nothing to do at all.
I saw it at its boldest in the mistreatment afforded to the recently deceased (last October) Susan Ryan. It is a measure of just how restrained the former Senator and first female Labor Cabinet Minister was that she didn’t bark and bite the head off of Bob Hawke for the way he treated her. Her mistreatment was despite all the good she did to get Labor elected in 1983 and to make Australian education a fair and well-resourced enterprise.
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The most unsafe workplace ? Parliament, Australian women say
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‘The Most Unsafe Workplace’? Parliament, Australian Women Say
More and more women are describing Parliament House as a sexist backwater. A staff member’s accusation of rape in a minister’s office, no less was the catalyst.
Australian members of Parliament, Andrew Wilkie, Rebekha Sharkie and Helen Haines, held signs last month to protest lawmakers’ treatment of women.Credit.Sam Mooy/Getty Images
April 5, 2021, 4:51 p.m. ET
SYDNEY, Australia When Julia Banks arrived in Parliament five years ago after a successful career in law and business, she felt as if she’d stepped back into the ’80s. Alcohol flowed freely. She occasionally smelled it on the breath of male lawmakers when they voted.