Tonight's Reclaim the Night Sydney rally has sharpened focus with the recent alleged rape and murder of Jill Meagher abducted when walking home at night, and social media campaigns that have sprung up to combat rising misogyny and sexism in Australia as shown in the rants of misogynist radio broadcasters, eg Alan Jones, and confirmed by WEFs 2012 Global Gender Gap report that shows Australia has slipped 10 places since 2006, to no. 25 behind some African states.
Read Ruth Skilbeck's longer comment here:
Reclaim the Night: breaking the silence from Ireland to Australia.
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