There’s nothing Australia’s conservative media like more than the story of an academic under attack. We’ve seen a steady stream of well- publicised cases of ideologues trying to shut down free speech on our campuses by cancelling academics who dare to challenge the prevailing Leftist orthodoxy.
Yet Tasmania’s Dr Fiona Girkin is on her own because her critics are far more dangerous. The University of Tasmania academic is under siege from feminists outraged that she’s gone public about her important work teaching police to use an evidence-based approach to domestic violence. She’d been training them to go into violent homes and look for actual evidence to properly determine who was the perpetrator, and, as is to be expected from the research, they end up arresting plenty of violent women.
When Fiona decided to talk about her work in my video interview published last week, she knew this was a threat to the ‘believe-all- women’ narrative that feminists use to cancel dissenting views. The huge multi-billion-dollar ‘gendered violence’ industry depends on keeping the lid on open discussion of research and suppressing the international studies that consistently show domestic violence involves just as many female as male perpetrators.