Nation somehow still fucking at ‘we need to start a conversation’ stage of combatting gendered violence 

As Australia reaches 37 women killed in just over 6 months (source: Sherele Moody), with three men and a teenage boy charged with the alleged murders of women and girls they knew, the country once again enters into the ‘we need to start a conversation’ stage of combatting gendered violence.

This as we continue the decades long loop of having the media and politicians acknowledge the widespread issue before falling short of fucking doing anything about it.

The Labor government, which could force a national conversation around the issue and lead by example by forcing change will likely respond with some slides made on Canva about how ‘someone’ needs to show leadership and do something about this, despite being in fucking charge.

They will also try to deflect from criticism by bragging about doing ‘more’ than previous governments as if doing basically nothing is worthy of praise because it’s ‘more’ than absolute fuck all.

They may even acknowledge that they have had multiple reports, including the 2024 Rapid Review, while hoping no journalist bothers to ask if the government has actually implemented the recommendations from said review.

While Labor sits and hopes that the issue will magically fix itself or experts somehow come up with recommendations that don’t involve more investment into education, ‘tough conversations’, funding frontline services, cracking down on advertising on industries that donate to political parties, lifting people out of poverty or anything else that requires a spine.

Meanwhile the media will use their power and influence to talk about the need to ‘have a conversation’ instead of just having the conversation. Which will be followed by the media in two weeks circling back to suggest wanting to have a conversation is ‘going too far’ because it might make some men uncomfortable.