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Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Channel Nine star sends male footy fans a warning about the horrific dark side of State of Origin
Channel Nine star Marlee Silva has sent a blunt message to men ahead of the Origin decider on Wednesday night in Sydney - domestic violence is never acceptable. It follows concerning figures from recent years when NSW and Queensland battle for interstate footy glory. 'Dear men, tonight is State of Origin,' began Silva's Instagram post, which she shared from another account. '2018 data tells us that domestic violence will spike by up to 40 per cent today. 'Your mate may be a perpetrator of violence against women or children. 'Your behaviour, language and the standard you accept matters... always, but especially on days like today.' Back in 2018, Michael Thorn of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education said there was a relationship between Origin games and an increase in domestic violence. 'The drivers are complex and many,' he said at the time. 'However, the disturbing findings suggest the State of Origin's particular celebration of heavy drinking, masculinity, tribalism and the toxic level of aggressive alcohol promotion have collided in such a way as to encourage drinking to excess and domestic violence.' Last year, MP Zali Steggall stated on X when Origin is on 'alcohol and gambling are known drivers of domestic violence' - before urging the federal government to tackle the multibillion-dollar alcohol and gambling industries. Simon Port, the Manager of Violence Prevention at EveryMan, told the ABC violence is never the answer. 'Violence is a choice and so is behaviour,' he said. '(We need to) get our frontal cortex back in gear - our thinking brain - so we can make better choices.' Port recommended strategies such as limiting alcohol consumption and preparing for the final result. Meanwhile, both teams aren't expected to make any late selection changes, as the Blues look to go back-to-back after winning the 2024 series. In an ominous statistic, no Queensland team dating back 45 years has lost the first game and then gone on to win the next two games away from home. Queensland coach Billy Slater has confirmed Cameron Munster will play, despite the five-eighth leaving camp to be with his family following the sudden death of his father Steven on Sunday. Daily Mail Australia will have a live blog to follow all the action online, with TV coverage on Channel Nine from 7pm.
Irish Times
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Men must call out misogyny and gender violence, union conference hears
Every man must take responsibility for calling out incidents of misogyny, abuse and gender violence, US activist and author Dr Jackson Katz told an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) conference. Progress on such issues was being rolled back at institutional level in the United States, and by online influencers, but there was pushback, he said. '[Men] need to be leaders,' Mr Katz told Ictu's biennial delegate conference in Belfast on Wednesday. 'Violence against women and other abuse is an issue for every man. And if you don't speak up when you see your friend, your team-mate, your classmate, your fellow union member, your fellow executive in the C suite talking about women in a way that's derogatory, or treating women in a way that's not respectful ... then, in a sense, isn't your silence a form of consent and complicity in his behaviour?' READ MORE Mr Katz – whose latest book on the issue is called Every Man – has worked with a range of organisations including the US military. However, he said improvements in culture over time were now being attacked as 'wokeism'. 'But I think progressive organisations like unions and conservative institutions like the military are more similar than different in terms of peer culture,' he told delegates. 'There's all kinds of reasons why men don't speak up, but when they see other men do it and model it, it makes it a little bit easier. And I think men in the union movement have the potential to have an incredible impact.' Wednesday's conference backed a number of motions on equality, as well as against domestic and other violence against women and girls. In his address Ictu general secretary, Owen Reidy, suggested the issues were of an ever-increasing urgency. 'We have seen the growth in right-wing populism the world over,' he said. 'The far right is also in the ascendancy in many parts of Europe and is, incredibly in some cases, becoming the norm, mainstreamed. Public discourse has got nastier and an aggressive misogyny has become more mainstreamed.' He noted that Ireland had encountered a growth in domestic violence, including sexual violence and rape against women. Both he and Mr Katz suggested the trends were closely linked. Sally Rees of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers speaking at the Ictu conference. Photograph: Kevin Cooper/Photoline Earlier, the conference heard from Sally Rees of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers about the conflicting reactions of men after a past pupil was found to have 'upskirted' her – taking videos over a 14-month period. 'One in three women will be sexually assaulted or harassed in their lifetime,' she said. 'You have not just the power and the means, but also a responsibility to your female colleagues and the women in your lives to change society and ensure that women and girls not only feel safe but are safe everywhere.'
