Australia: media don’t help. They enable violence against women and fuel the backlash

Nearly six years after the #MeToo movement arrived in Australia, and more than a decade after the launch of the first national plan to reduce violence against women, those who witnessed the scenes in Parliament last week — and read the media coverage that spurred it — could be forgiven for wondering what, if anything, will ever really change.

I suspect those despairing, like me, also reflected on the recent release of the second national community attitudes survey, which demonstrated that myths about sexual assault and domestic violence are still rife — and the backlash against justice for women is in full swing.

Click here to read the full article published by Crikey on 21 June 2023.