“Hopefully in the days, weeks and months ahead we will get the answers we need and we will get justice for Allison.”
At today’s rally for Allison Baden-Clay, Today Show host Lisa Wilkinson made a passionate speech, calling out the “national disgrace” that is Australia’s domestic violence crisis.
“Today is about justice for Allison and for all women … today is also an example of democracy in action,” she told the thousand-strong rally in Brisbane’s King George Square.
“This community is coming together and saying the Court of Appeal’s decision in the community’s eyes does not deliver justice for Allison and all women.”
You can watch her powerful speech (courtesy of Channel 9) in full here:
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Interesting that what I thought was a fairly moderate comment about whether it's a good idea to have public rallies against specific court judgements didn't make it through the censors. I thought this site was becoming more open to dissenting views but apparently not.
Some of the less enlightened comments on this thread show just how uncomfortable this conversation makes many people. I've experienced DV and I know many women who have experienced DV. This defensiveness that many feel about calling this for what it is, is telling. How can we have a sensible conversation about DV without naming its dominant characteristics and perpetrators?? It's nonsensical really. The problem of male violence against women is a symptom of gendered attitudes and power imbalances we have in our society, of the socialisation we receive as men or women on our 'place' in the world. Again we see women being told to be quiet, not take up too much space, not make anyone feel uncomfortable or unsettled. Well guess what, a world where I need to educate my daughter to try to avoid DV is an uncomfortable and unsettling world. To those who are shocked and scandalised by the conversation being had in this post, welcome to discomfort, or as I like to call it, REALITY.
Nobody is yelling Lisa to be quiet, quite the opposite, she is given a broad public platform. But that's a different issue to a requirement to agree with her sexist exclusion of all non women.
Over 62,000 Aussies died in World War I of which less than 250 were women. Because women are such a tiny percentage of the fallen, let's not mention them in ANZAC services. Fair enough? It's an issue that effects men, we should honour just their sacrifice?