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Why sex-neutral language fails family violence policy
In this episode, Emma and Lucy discuss two recent submissions on family violence, one to the Tasmanian Government, one to the federal Second Action Plan consultation, both built on the same argument: sex-neutral language like "people who use violence" obscures who is harmed and who does the harm. They cover misidentification of women as perpetrators, the case for female-only refuges and crisis services, and why official communications avoid naming men as responsible, before looking at the one place the submissions take different approaches, and why that reflects two levers of…
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