Attempts to discredit our friend Kate are disgraceful. At this vaunted moment of reckoning, women have been let down by leaders and (mostly) male members of the media
Last month’s strong words from political leaders about tackling the power imbalance at the heart of our democracy between men and women, bosses and staffers, have long since been drowned out by the brutal echoes of “lying cow” and “mob rule”. The initial pledge of action for women, the commitment to change a damaging culture, was apparently abandoned at the first hint that allyship comes at a cost.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. It was Scott Morrison, after all, who used an International Women’s Day address two years ago to assure us he supported women’s rise but not “on the basis of others doing worse”. Yet there he was, basking in Grace Tame’s star wattage at the Australian of the Year awards, speaking of the power of women coming forward, until mere weeks later when a woman came forward, posthumously through her friends, with an accusation of a violent crime alleged to have been committed against her by his attorney general.
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