What has not been tried to date, is the testing of these allegations with unbeatable, space age lie detection!

Even though the technology, FR and thermal imaging have been available for years. with FR improving in leaps and bounds since it was first deployed, anywhere but here?

The fact that these two technologies can work together and be deployed covertly, makes them all the more attractive!

Elbow, if elected could make it happen here and for us! Along with a federal ICAC with teeth! And equipped with the foregoing technology be tried, enabled to verify the truth and nothing but the truth!?

Let us see how much polly waffle, would tried on then?
Alan B.

Hi Alan

FR may be better than human judgement at detecting lies, but it's not yet accurate enough to justify a conviction, I think.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202111/most-accurate-lie-detection-to-date-from-tell-tale-muscle-activation-claimed

I'm so sorry to hear of your terrible experiences of abuse as a child. I understand that Phillip is trying to highlight the fact that men and boys are victims of abuse as well as women and girls; and of course in this, he is right. But in trying to downplay the prevalence of assault I think he does a disservice to all victims, male and female.

I did say from the very beginning that this is a set-up. Just you wait till someone's leaking a text from a senior Labor git that'll prove it !

Dear Alan B,

Really sorry to hear of what happened to you through your youth. Like many others in through schooling I attracted the attention of a pederast more than once but I think knowledge of the hell my father would have wrought if he had known kept the worst at bay. Many of my peers did not fare as well.

What it did to my behaviour was a direct by-product and I did not do as well as I perhaps could have scholastically was one of the results.

That you have manged to come through such horror and present so well on here is a credit mate.

All the best.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Here is the Jenkins report discussed in the article.

http://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_set_the_standard_2021.pdf

I am struggling to find the figure for "But who would have known that 43% of complainants were actually male?"

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi SteeleRedux

I was wondering the same thing. The report makes clear that women are much more likely than men to experience sexual harassment – “Women in CPWs experienced sexual harassment at a higher rate (40%) compared with men (26%).” (p.29). The 43% number does not appear anywhere in the report.

Given this, the only way that the statement “43% of complainants were actually male” could be true is if there were a lot more males than females in the sample. This is what I assumed in my earlier post, and the report does indeed indicate that, in the total population of Parliamentary and Public Service Staff under consideration by the review, men significantly outnumber women (p.53). But digging deeper it’s clear that females outnumber males in both the survey responses and in total contributions to the review (pages 283 and 289). So I can’t think of any way Hickox’s statistic can be derived from these data.