Men dying by suicide is above my pay grade. But, in the military, police, and in fire fighting, DEI will cause innocent people to DIE. It is absurd to think that females can perform physically the same as men. That's one reason they (rightly) want males pretending to be females out of their sports. Throw in their 'monthlies', and DEI is real sh.t show. As for Australia following Trump. In your dreams!

DEI is the product of insanity & it kills common sense, common courtesy, respect & costs actual lives !
DEI should be made to exist on its own merit !

I believe in genuine meritocracy and recruitment criteria that select the best person for the job, regardless of gender, race or anything else. If, as ttbn suggests, that means we get more male than female firefighters, then so be it. But the number of jobs where size and strength are material has declined over the decades, and technology is often more material now than brute strength. A policewoman with a taser has proved more than a match for a 120kg bikie:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/rookie-policewoman-tells-court-how-she-tasered-bandidos-bikie/news-story/6ca880a76a06ab7e7266bf95f389fa6c

I’d add a couple of provisos to the meritocracy argument.

One is that recruitment processes often do not select on merit. Many studies have shown that unconscious bias by recruiters and poorly designed selection criteria mean that women and minorities don’t always get offered a position even if they are the best candidates. Correcting for these factors makes it more likely that selection will actually be on merit.

Another is that we almost never have a level playing field before we become applicants. An Indigenous kid raised in a remote community has much less chance of meeting, say, university admission criteria than an affluent suburban kid who went to private school. In principle the best solution is to ensure that remote indigenous communities get education as good as suburban private schools. But until that happens, applying different admission criteria may be necessary to select the candidate with the most “merit”.

Anyway, Bettina Arndt has zero interest in meritocracy. She makes a living pandering to the male grievance industry. Her utterly disgusting comment that “suicide prevention bodies are staffed almost entirely by female health bureaucrats … who have no interest in saving the lives of ordinary men” is a case in point

less chance of meeting, say, university admission criteria
Rhian,
Of course & a suburban kid has less chance of gaining the survival skills of an indigenous.
What is it that blinds so many about university education ? Uni education has almost reached the point of being a pointless exercise going by the evidence around us.
DEI does not discriminate between competence & incompetence & disregards merit & the thinking Americans & others around the World are seeing that. When will Australia follow suit ?

University ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NhPYICTwDk

DEI if not stopped will be worse than COVID !