Australians want a royal commission into femicide. What haunts me is wondering if it’ll be enough to make leaders act (opens in new tab)

The solutions to ending gender-based violence aren’t a mystery. The problem is that governments refuse to act on themWhen a social crisis becomes too big to ignore, governments reach for their most powerful instrument: the royal commission. It compels decision-makers to testify, forces institutions into the open, and produces sweeping blueprints for reform. It suspends business-as-usual politics and focuses the nation’s attention on injustice and institutional failure, establishing what went ...