Let the proven beyond all doubt, facts, decide guilt or not! And because it is absolutely possible beyond a shadow of doubt! Why don't we?

Answer.

Because that's not what the scribbler and fellow travels like ttbn want!

If the guilty go free and the innocent made to pay? As is the case where an unwanted child, the result of date rape or worse, means the female is forced to raise the child, in too many cases, wearing all the blame, when in fact, truth be known she said NO!

Or never said yes, because she was drugged by her abuser!

Then what we have is nothing less than a Kangaroo court writ large and casualties that serve a lifetime sentence!

Raising a child on a miserable single mother's pension like my daughter, is no picnic. And because her innocent trust was violated.

Ditto my Mum Who had no single mum's pension! And was treated as a common and reviled whore, by friends, family and the church!
Alan B.

More codswallop Alan B.

. What are the facts you say are missing?
. What does "let the proven beyond all doubt" mean? The old Grammarly not working?
. What does "answer" in a single line paragraph mean?
. What is a "fellow travels"?
. Who are the guilty who went free?
. Who had the unwanted child?
. Don't you know that the university committees ARE the kangaroo courts?
. Have any of the accusers had to raise a child on a "miserable single mum's pension"?
. Where does your single mother fit in? Was she impregnated at university?
. Your mother was treated as "a common and reviled whore, by FRIENDS, family and the church? Good 'friends' she had. And, what does treating a person "like a common and reviled whore" look like?

You have the rest of the day, plus tomorrow, to properly explain your ignorant, disgraceful attack on Ms. Arndt's article, or you could just apologise and stop making a fool of yourself.

Alan,

Sadly you are following the tradition of most dictators who prefer that the innocent are punished to ensure that no guilty people go free.

The propensity of university disciplinary councils to dish out disproportionate punishment on the flimsiest pretext is the reason to provide free legal counsel to those facing them.

Free legal counsel for both accused and accuser as well as mandatory space age, unbeatable lie detector tests! No problem with that SM.

Anybody unhappy with the factual truth being revealed by irrefutable, space age, unbeatable lie detection?

Please state viable reasons and resist the abuse like that, argument free abuse, ttbn and ilk resort to when they cannot argue based on revealed facts. Revealed by the aforementioned, unbeatable, space age, lie detection.

Those are the facts I'm referring to "genius".

All action comes with consequences. If one cannot or will not wear the consequences of their acts, then don't commit the act, whatever that may be.

Keep your pecker in your pants! Or ask lady palmer and her daughters to provide relief.

We are not animals with no control, but civilised human beings with control! With apparent exceptions like the abusive ttbn? And if the cap fits!?

I have no reason to see falsely accused be penalised by our courts system, just the guilty, be they the accused or accuser!
Alan B.

I knew you would have no answers and no common-sense, Alan; but being a fair man, I felt that you deserved another chance. You blew it.

As for 'abuse': you are the one abusing Bettina Arndt, and me, and anyone you disagree with. I think that you need help. But that's your problem, no-one else's.

I'll leave you to your raving.

Bettina Arndt writes elsewhere that she is suspicious of the '275 rapes a week' claim cooked up by Teals working on a survey of a mere 1.1% of the university population who bothered to respond.

If the figure was true, rape would be a spectator sport, and nobody would be doing much learning.

The AHRC Commission responded to this report saying, respondents were “self-selected students who were motivated to respond” which means these responses “cannot be regarded as representative of the Australian university student population as a whole.”

And, half the assaults reported were said to have occurred off campus in private homes, clubs and other outside locations.

Sexual assaults do occur, but you would have to be a real drongo to fall for the '275 times a week' tales from activists and trouble makers.

Three cheers for Bettina Arndt!