A Very Sad Apology for Leadership

I seldom watch the ABC news these days and even more rarely SBS news. Yet last Thursday I tuned into SBS at 6.30pm. The first segment, which lasted about fifteen minutes, was about flooding. The news anchor was a member of the sexual cohort with female body parts, formerly called without ambiguity “women”. Someone from emergency services was interviewed as was a meteorologist. Both women. Three reporters on the spot were brought in to explain the conditions in their neck of the woods. All women. Two premiers were interviewed Ms Palaszczuk and Ms Berejiklian. Are you getting my drift?

Only the oppressed sex seemed to have a guernsey. Not one man. I can only assume it is such an onerous business to front cameras that misogynous men must be forcing women to do it. Things must change. As Scott Morrison put it at his mea culpa press conference on March 23, “it is not OK.”

You might think this piece is about women. It’s not. Well, not entirely. It’s also about men in general…