Australian campaigners for women’s rights have cited safety fears as the reasoning behind their decision to pull out of the Let Women Speak rally in Australia’s capital city Canberra on March 23.
The Australian Let Women Speak rallies, organised by women rights advocate Kelli-Jay Keen (also known as Posie Parker), have been plagued by controversy over the past week after a rally in Melbourne was marred by violence and gatecrashed by a group of protestors who performed a Nazi salute. Another rally in Hobart was drowned out by LGBTQIA+ protestors.
Senator Claire Chandler, who was due to speak at the Canberra rally, said in a post on Facebook that she would not be speaking at the event because she was concerned there was no assurance that it would be safe for women to attend. She also noted that the media had not reported not one word from the speakers at the rallies….