Government Warned Against Alienating Men in Anti-Violence Campaign

Independent MP for Fowler, Dai Le, has warned that any government campaign aimed at reducing the incidence of male-on-female violence must be “mindful of language … because not all men are violent.” In moving to address the increasing numbers of women losing their lives, she warned that Australia must not “alienate one group from another.” “I’m a mother of a son. I know that we have to be mindful of our language because not all men are violent, but how we are portraying it is that men are violent against women,” she told ABC. “How do we include the young men in our society? How do we make sure they’re educated to respect and to work alongside women? [So they] don’t feel like we are saying they’re the bad ones there....