Double Gender Standards Down Under

Luek writes "Here are two news stories about how Australians view victims of judicial tyranny.

The first is about how a 27 yo Australian female who got busted in Indonesia for smuggling in drugs and was sentenced to 20 years. It seems the whole nation of Australia is all aflutter and outraged about this gross miscarriage of justice against a woman. She even has a rich male financial backer supporting her case.

The other is about a misandric Domestic Violence law in the state of Tasmania. Here a judge criticizes the law in denying bail to a man accused of DV after having spent 5 weeks awaiting the bail hearing as being unfair and not in the best tradition of Western jurisprudence where innocence is presumed until proven guilty. Of course this story is buried in the back pages and evidently the citizenry of Tasmania and the rest of the nation don't seem to give a damn."

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