Jane Gilmore
Jane Gilmore: No, Prime Minister. Women don’t need another national plan. We need action
Scott Morrison hijacked the National Women’s Safety Summit to brag about his government’s achievements on sexual harassment law. This despite the fact...
Jane Gilmore: All the things that carry more risk than the AstraZeneca vaccine
Melbourne is still recovering from the lockdowns that turned most of 2020 into a lonely, panic-stricken haze. And yet, as we’re facing...
Scott Morrison’s sermon was a carefully planned speech, not a moment of unguarded sincerity
The man who earned the moniker “Scotty from Marketing” by his near obsession with spin over substance has apparently had a moment...
Counter-terrorism gets a bigger political focus than domestic violence – with far fewer victims
Two women and a baby girl were killed last week, allegedly by violent, abusive men. Amid all the grief and rage we...
The worst thing about that consent video? It’s believable our government made it
After failing so comprehensively to understand women’s experience of rape that nearly 100,000 women felt compelled to march in protest, you might...
Jane Gilmore: The numbers Scott Morrison just can’t seem to comprehend
There are very few women in Australia who haven’t experienced bad behaviour from men. Put a group of women in a room...
Jane Gilmore: PM’s inaction on men’s violence inflicts even more damage
Scott Morrison’s responses to allegations of rape and sexual harassment in Parliament House have been described as “fumbled” or “mishandled”, as if...
Jane Gilmore: Scott Morrison has ignored women. It shows in the streets, and it will show at the polls
Across the country on Monday, tens of thousands of women marched to protest against gendered injustice. They left the jobs that don’t...
Jane Gilmore: What does a rapist look like? You’d be surprised
What does a rapist look like? A few years ago, I was talking to a professional football player about men’s violence against...
Jane Gilmore: We tell women to report rape, sexual assault. Then we make it impossible to do
Last week the AFP sent a stern warning to federal MPs about the dangers of failing to report crimes – such as...