Inflating campus sexual assault statistics

Such an oversight body had long been a goal for the activists. They worked on Malcolm Turnbull's woke education Minister, Simon Birmingham, who had the taskforce on the drawing board before Turnbull was turfed out and Birmingham lost his job. When that happened, as mentioned recently in The Saturday Paper, the Minister's adviser sent an email to one of the activists saying, "We were so close!"

With this Labor government so keen to act as a feminist lapdog, times are good for the campus activists. In the name of keeping women safe on campus, the taskforce will require universities to be transparent about their responses to sexual violence incidents, promote more training of students and staff in "respectful behaviour", more information about where to report incidents, more consistent and accessible complaint processes. Sanctions will be applied to recalcitrant universities.

It's enough to drive Vice Chancellors to drink. They've already had years of bending over backwards trying to appease the zealots driving this whole circus. In the year following the release of the previous (2016) survey – which, as I explained at the time, showed universities were very safe places for young women - the sector introduced 800 new initiatives against sexual violence, rolling out respectful relationships and sexual consent programs, specialist counselling, first responder training, safety apps, college-based initiatives. The list goes on.

Most worrying of all was the truly Kafkaesque kangaroo court system set in place across the university sector, with accused students instantly suspended from university, publicly shamed, and facing secretive committees intent on believing all complainants and denying accused men normal legal protections. Thousands of male students have had their education destroyed and lives ruined. See my website for videos and blogs telling some of their stories.

Universities did all this but still it was never enough. Just look at the efforts made by woke ANU Nobel Prize winning Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt, who, ever since he was appointed, has been kowtowing to feminist bullies determined to paint his esteemed institution as a hot bed of sexual violence.

In his first year he featured in local newspapers grovelling to tearful girls claiming to be victims of a "rape crisis" and announced he would put "unlimited resources" into "this wicked problem." After four years of constant effort, protesters interrupted a university speech claiming he still wasn't doing enough. "Your Nobel Prize isn't helping you now," screamed one protester.

Earlier this month ANU students held their sixth annual rally against the "ongoing crisis of sexual violence at the university." Phoebe Denham, a former student, was quoted in a local newspaper reporting that when she left school planning to go to the ANU, her friends were horrified: "Had I not seen the statistics? How could I possibly be safe if I move to ANU?"

Universities quake in fear that they will find themselves in this cruel spotlight, under attack from the feminist rabble for some claimed failure in their efforts to keep women safe. Such is the state of terror that one university recently banned the use of their normal email system for discussion of SASH matters. All such communication must now be printed off and put in the little yellow envelopes to be delivered by internal couriers!

Is it any wonder that many of the bosses of our university are ready to throw in the towel? They've realised that no matter what they do the activists will cook up more manufactured statistics to claim there's still a problem. "Many believe the pendulum has swung too far already," says a senior administrator who wanted to remain anonymous, pointing to recent prominent campus rape cases which ended up being thrown out of court, with the universities admonished for damaging young men's lives by automatically believing dubious complainants.

Witness Alex Matters. I first wrote about this former ANU law student's extraordinary story some months ago but last month he was interviewed on Sky News by Sharri Markson. How embarrassing for the ANU that the girl at the centre of the Matters court case had an official role on their SASH student staff when she found out that someone else had accused her regular fuck-buddy, Alex Matters, of rape. She threw Matters under the bus with her own absurd allegations which later fell apart in court. Matters has been found not guilty of all charges and little Ms Advocate exposed as a lying, manipulative vixen.

And then there was the harrowing tale published last month in the Weekend Australian about a Sydney University student, Jacob, who also had his life destroyed by false rape allegations. Jacob's lawyer, Sydney SC Tom Molomby was scathing about the woman who fabricated the accusations against him, describing her as "Ruthless. Remorseless. Shameless. Calculating. Cruel." I urge you to read this revealing case – see here. After a 14-day trial, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, the jury took two hours to find Jacob not guilty. The judge required the prosecution to pay defence costs – showing this case should not have ended up in court. Jacob had been thrown out of the university right after the accusations were made.

With the media finally exposing the tragic impact of such cases on the lives of these young men, is it any wonder universities are wondering how they ended up caught up in this mess?