Monash Lens This week we mark International Women’s Day. The theme this year is ‘Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’. Many words in the past few weeks have been dedicated to the question of leadership, the privilege of power, and the active effort to deny or discredit women as leaders and as truth tellers. Kate Fitz-Gibbon Silke Meyer Marie Segrave Associate Professor of Criminology For this week, we want to shine a light on the vacuum of accountable leadership in addressing violence against women. In a week when politicians are required to celebrate women, the place for women in Australia has never been under greater threat. Arguably, never before have women victim-survivors across our country been made to feel so unsupported and disbelieved by those in power.