gender

Australians Would Do Well To Recognise The Iranian Women Fighting Against Real Tyranny In A Futile Battle For Equality
6 October 2022

Australians Would Do Well To Recognise The Iranian Women Fighting Against Real Tyranny In A Futile Battle For Equality

This article was originally published in Sky News Australia on or about 6 October 2022 and was written by the author in their capacity as a contributor for that publication. It has been republished on the IPA website with permission. The views expressed are those of the author alone. Looking at the mass protests against gender oppression that have broken out across Iran
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Rescue Remedy
9 April 2022

Rescue Remedy

The idiocy of gender justice in disasters In the last couple of months, multiple fingers have been pointed in a great many directions in an effort to blame somebody or something for the flood response in New South Wales and Queensland. In an online poll conducted by the Daily Telegraph which asked, ‘Who do you think is responsible for the Lismore flooding
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Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner
25 September 2020

Please Welcome Victoria’s First Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian Government last week decided to announce the appointment of the first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner, Dr Niki Vincent, to head up a new unaccountable and powerful identity-politics-based bureaucracy which will divide and dehumanise Victorians.  For the general public distracted by the ritual reading of the COVID-19 cases the appointment might have passed them by. Just as in February when the law that created the position was up for debate the Victorian Coalition was fawning over the cash for
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Daniel Andrews’ Alternative Reality
28 August 2018

Daniel Andrews’ Alternative Reality

Here we go again. Today, Daniel Andrews announced a plan to build a new suburban railway system even though he has no idea how much it will actually cost, who is going to pay for it, and how long Victorians will actually have to wait until it is finished.  This is another pragmatic, yet pie in the sky announcement which
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At Uni With Mrs Potato Head
9 June 2018

At Uni With Mrs Potato Head

These days, whenever a local council comes up with a lunatic idea that bewilders ordinary Australians, you can be guaranteed that there is a university behind it. Last month the Herald Sun reported that Manningham and Melbourne City Councils were going to remove from their respective kindergartens, schools and libraries all books and toys deemed to enforce gender stereotypes. The
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