Coarse and effect: Normalised anger online as an essential precondition to violence

Immediately upon commencing his three years as Australias twenty-ninth prime minister, the nominally centre-right Malcolm Turnbull attempted to reframe the scourge of domestic violence by highlighting not merely the horrendous death toll but its underlying sociocultural preconditions (Kenny, 2015). To his enduring credit, it became common to cite the wisdom of his spouse, Lucy Turnbull, who had noted persuasively that an undercurrent of misogyny was the soil from which acts of violence could spring. Let me say this to you: disrespecting women does not always result in violence against women. But all violence against women begins with disrespecting women, Turnbull told reporters while announcing new funding of $100 million to address the problem.