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Title: Respect
Author: HENNESSY JILL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2021
Imprint: MONASH UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
Price: $19.95
Publishing status: Active
When Héritier Lumumba s Collingwood teammates called him Chimp , it showed a lack of respect. When the Prime Minister referred to Brittany Higgins by her first name in parliament, it showed a lack of respect. When senator Bill Heffernan referred to then prime minister Julia Gillard as deliberately barren , it showed a lack of respect. When the federal government refused permission to fly the Indigenous flag in the Senate, it showed a lack of respect. When Bettina Arndt defended a 56-year-old man who had repeatedly raped fifteen-year-old Grace Tame, now the 2021 Australian of the Year, it showed a lack of respect. So when did respect disappear? When did we agree to abandon our respect for expertise, for other people s experience and history, for the boundaries between the personal and the public, for facts as well as feelings? In a civil society, respect is a fundamental principle. Should the government of the day legislate respect? Should it lead the community or follow it? Victorian MP Jill Hennessey, in a passionate argument, exhorts us to reclaim the empathy that respect depends on.
Series: In The National Interest
ISBN: 9781922464576
Dimension: 175mm X 111mm