Women's Safety

18 March 2021

You can't fix what you don't talk about, so I'll talk about what my team, my family and I deal with. There are the Facebook comments, daily and derogatory, about personal attributes, not policy. I know I'm not alone, which is why I offered a social media self-defence for women online workshop just last week with the eSafety Commission. Of course, there's more. There have been the obscenely defaced campaign posters in every one of my four election campaigns and the attacks on my office windows. There are also the threats of violence and death—sometimes direct, sometimes veiled—targeted at me, my family or my staff. They can come via Facebook or Twitter, via email or in an anonymous letter. Occasionally, the threat's in