This year may well prove the breakout year for sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace. The #MeToo/Harvey Weinstein moment Downunder.Perhaps it will be the first opportunity since the...
By Tony Nagy
50 shades of excuse: Why sex and power should never be confused
Apart, sex and power are topics of endless human fascination.Together, like nitroglycerine, they can be explosive.Frighteningly, together, they now seem to be the new defence against rape and...
The anger of ‘incels’
It’s a bit of a shock when normally sober voices such as those of academic Carol Johnson and the Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher start using the term ‘authoritarian’ about...
Whose womb is it, anyway?
For the past two decades Australians have been exposed to recycled cliches borrowed usually from US right wing activists, from ‘political correctness’, and ‘identity politics’ and more recently...
From eros to logos, Sex Party to Reason
With historian Geoffrey Blainey, Australians once feared 'The Tyranny of Distance' from our colonial power - and even today any idea of an Australian Republic remains highly contested.Then the...
The rise of the woman independent
Whilst it is early days, there are certainly some interesting takeouts from the surprise victory of Dr Kerryn Phelps in the recent Wentworth byelection.The Phelps phenomenon, as well as the rise of...
Hillary Clinton’s greatest campaign has only just begun
“Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty; eternal vigilance is the price of human decency”Aldous Huxley, 1965It was certainly a more reflective and human Hillary Clinton witnessed on her...
Democratic decline and the feminist politics of power
It's been a difficult time for those who consider civil debate part of our democratic process, the primary means for advancing personal liberties and developing policies that best represent a...
Don’t mind his misogyny: Has political language been Trumped?
"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression." - Kate Millett, 1970 "My goal is that by...