Time to end discrimination against men

yesterday was international women’s day and it served to shine a light on the growing disadvantages faced by the most oppressed and neglected minority in Australia – men. It’s ironic that the women who bring men into the world are so ready to dismiss and abandon them to boost their orthodox feminist credentials. But in Australia, men are severely over-represented in suicides, in prison, in homelessness and in unemployment. What is being done to close these enormous gaps? Nothing. In particular, Australian men are severely disadvantaged in the family law system and Labor is making it worse by removing shared parenting. Men deserve as much access to their children as women do. Men deserve acknowledgement as representing a quarter of domestic violence victims. Men deserve help with their health issues. Men deserve much more recognition from this government and this Parliament. How about we start with a Minister for Men?