Violence Against Women: A Crisis in Australia?
Australia is among the least violent countries in the world. There are things we should do to make women safer, but we should not succumb to a crisis narrative.
Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. His latest book is How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration (Bloomsbury 2024).
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The Rise of a Mega-Movement
We have lost the words that we could once call upon to justify diversity of thoughts, desires, viewpoints, and policy preferences, as opposed to a diversity of demographic groups.
Reasons to Be Fearful
Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down.