Ms Batty is a typical protective woman of her campaign against violent men, and jealous that another woman can support men on the other side of the violence equation. Her attack on Bettina is based in jealousy. This is a female trait.

Did her husband Greg Anderson have anyone understanding him and his hurt? If there had been proper intervention, other than police, then his behaviour might have been different. It is pointless just ostracizing violent men, he needed intervention counselling. Ms Batty considered the son an unwanted accident according to Wikipedia. The son Luke was not going to be totally accepted under this situation, as she had fallen out with the violent father.

Rosemary Anne "Rosie" Batty, AO (born 1962) is an English-born Australian domestic violence campaigner and the 2015 Australian of the Year.[5] Her role as a campaigner began in 2014 after her 11-year-old son Luke Batty was murdered by his father Greg Anderson.
As a campaigner, she has spoken publicly about her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence to raise public awareness and advocate for social changes.

Batty met Anderson in 1992 when they worked together at a recruitment company and the two began a romantic relationship that lasted two years. Batty has said that Anderson showed signs of sexual violence whilst they were together, including allegedly attempting to rape a friend of Batty's, after which Batty ended the two-year relationship.

Almost eight years later she initiated contact with him and resumed a brief sexual relationship, which led to Batty's pregnancy.

She says she had never planned to have a child, given her lifelong fear of loss, and that her son was an accident.

Paul, I agree with all you say, with deference.
I don't know what she has done, other than her being an advocate for the men, against any possible wrongful indictments against men.
I don't care about her qualifications and other questionable things she may be accused of.
I only care about the fact that SOMEONE is taking up the cause for the men against a vial and vicious group of women with a very sick and twisted view about men, especially those accused of some wrong doing against a woman.
All of you who are maligning this person over semantics and pedantics, should be ashamed of yourselves.
Why would you care if the person trying to pull you out of the well is qualified to do so or not.
Just be grateful that they are there to pull you out.
Even if they don't succeed, it was better than no one trying at all.
So back off with the character assassination, you are nasty little weasels for not applauding her efforts.
Remember these guys are ACCUSED and ALLEGED to have done this or that, so according to you, even the ones who have been convicted should not be allowed to show good cause as to why or how the situation came about, which led to their conviction.
The problem with those of you crying for blood is that you believe the legal system, without question.
WRONG!
The legal system, like the people, is flawed, and the number of innocent people in jail is appalling, and it takes some special kind of people to seek out the truth.
The trouble with you lot is you don't know, so you take an emotional and subjective 'yes sir, no sir' view on these issues without an ounce of real info or the truth.

Thank God someone stood up for truth when the lying liberal media and lying women accused Kavannaugh of rape. Almost all regressives joined in trying to have an innocent man ruined. I know little about Bettina Arndt however if she has upset emasculated men and toxic feminist she must be doing something right.

Runner, why the heck would you champion emasculating men?
How do the two fall in the same category, ie; emasculated men and toxic feminists?
I can understand even killing toxic feminists, but I'm not sure why it is a good thing attacking and demeaning an already beaten man even further by attacking him.
Unlike the rest of society, I am not quick to judge, until or unless I have the truth behind any situation.
For those convicted of some wrong doing, I ask if ALL the facts were revealed and were they the truth.
Most of the time any legal action is marred by lie's and innuendo, so the person is found guilty unfairly.
Such is the situation today with the changing of laws by the feminazi's applying pressure to the govt to change the laws to accept the word of a woman even without witnesses.
Why this is an obvious error, and I mean obvious, is that women, either today or decades ago, conduct themselves like sluts, dress accordingly, then intentionally go out of an evening to conduct themselves even more slutty, by getting so drunk as to re-define the word paralytically drunk.
Then they conclude their trifecta by screwing who-ever grabs their fancy.
All this in a state of semi-consciousness.
And these are the maggots we are supposed to believe were aggrieved, and because of their belated and new found sense of virtues, send some random guy up the river, on her say so.
Anyone subscribing to this kind of kangaroo court crap, is as sick and twisted as these maggots who dare accuse guys of ANYTHING!
The laws/people in this country need a good shake up, and I hope it hits them all very hard, so they can feel the injustices being dispensed on innocent men, all in the name of justice.
Which it should be reported as INJUSTICE!

So Josephus, what is the relationship between Rosie Batty and giving Bettina Arndt an Order of Australia?

"Batty is considered to have had a significant influence on national public attitudes, philanthropy, government initiatives and funding, support services and police and legal procedures related to domestic violence in Australia."

Given the above then Batty should be rewarded in the way she has been. If Arndt had did something similar then she to should be rewarded likewise. However both are not mutually dependent on each other. I fail to see the relationship. In the case of "Doctor" Arndt, there is no evidence that shows she has done anything particularly outstanding.

The wording of the award is ""significant service to the community as a social commentator, and to gender equity through advocacy for men"

Where is this significant service to the community? Its just not there. Add her obvious deceptions then I say count her out.

ALTRAV, do you believe the garbage you post. Claiming; "I am not quick to judge", you have predictable preconceived hard right notions in that head of yours, and you spew them out at every opportunity

Paul for a start Bettina does not use the term Doctor Arndt, that is your construction. Ms Batty only sees the problem of domestic violence solved by imprisonment. She has been hurt by men so hurting men in her view is justice.

Violent men most probably were raised in a frustrating and violent home. If we are going to deal with the problem effort must be taken to re-educate the patterns of reaction and behaviours. Isolating them in a male prison with other violent offenders is not the answer. The law is not a motivating factor to change.