Lieutenant-General David Morrison, Chief of Army, delivered a press conference last week in response to another revelation of sexism within the ADF. Unlike the Coalition, Morrison is prepared to accept the ADF has an ongoing problem with misogyny and violence against women. He sees it and he wants to remove it, because he holds the army to a higher standard than that. He holds men to a higher standard than that; he recognises that an imbalance in power exists that negatively affects women, and he is using his own position to change that because he understands the importance of women’s equal participation in public life. As he so eloquently stated, “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
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