Commentary As a fitting end to this year let’s marvel at the audacity of Australian feminists leading the world in their outstanding achievements in remaking our society. Their goals are far from modest, aiming for nothing less than a “gender transformative” program for “social, cultural, and structural and systemic change.” This includes actively challenging “dominant forms and patterns of masculinity that operate at and across structural, systemic, organisational, community, interpersonal, and individual levels of society.” That’s quite an ask. “No one’s ever tried to change the gender norms, structures and practices in a society at population level before,” boasts Emma Partridge, one of the women responsible for setting up this lofty goal. She’s a key member of the scheme controlling this entire operation, a neat little unit titled Our Watch. Our Watch was originally set up as the engine room for the government’s massive $3 billion (US$2.1 billion) decade-long campaign …
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