Australia launched a A$19 million (US$14.6 million) campaign on International Women’s Day urging people to “unmute,” or speak up, when they witness disrespect against women, as its parliament is under scrutiny over sexual assault allegations.
Australian Minister for Women Marise Payne said in a statement yesterday that Australia had made progress toward gender equality, but that “challenges remain” in the home and workplace.
In launching the campaign, Payne, who is also minister for foreign affairs, and Australian Minister for Families and Social Services Anne Rushton were grilled over the government’s response to historical rape allegations that have intensified scrutiny of the treatment
Attorney-general Christian Porter is accused of raping a woman in 1988
He categorically denies accusation, insisting what is claimed did not happen
Friends of the woman have paid tribute and demanded an independent inquiry
They have remembered the woman as possessing charisma and intellect
The woman took her own life last year and NSW Police closed an investigation
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False memory is a weapon often used to discredit sexual assault survivors
Psychologists say survivors do not forget their horrific experiences. They may try to not remember, but completely forgetting is extremely unlikely.
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Memory is contentious, that much is clear. Those who have experienced trauma often have patchy memories: dissociation is common, as is freezing and becoming immobile.
But the idea that someone can simply forget then remember an instance of abuse, having previously remembered nothing, is not one supported by professionals, and has not been a common claim for decades.
Yet false memory syndrome has been used to discredit survivors time and again in recent years. Lawyers for Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein have all called in experts on false memory to give expert testimony at their trials.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of mostly female workers gathered outside government buildings in Sydney to condemn violence against women and call for greater gender equality in workplaces, amid growing scrutiny over the treatment of women in Australian politics. Celebrating International Women s Day, a young woman stood outside the New South Wales state parliament, with the message My body, my business written across her body, while another held a placard reading Equal work deserves equal pay! . A variety of workers - from nurses and teachers to hairdressers and transport workers - took part in the gathering. It comes as the government launched a A$19 million ($14.57 million) campaign urging people to speak up when they witness disrespect against women. Let us all work together . so that we finally move to a world where sexual violence and sexual assault and sexual harassment is a thing of the past, Jenny Leong, a parliamentary representative from the Greens party told the crowd. Austral
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