Tanya Plibersek

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243 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 27 Aug

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7am · “I feel sick about it”: Tanya Plibersek on the Swans, Scots College and rising misogyny · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

Crazy.

Yeah.

And, you know, to be resisted with violence if necessary, I just need to repeat that.

I really do think social media is the driving force behind this increase in misogyny.

And teachers will tell you, that survey of 500 teachers said that they're hearing the language of the

kind of red pill influences turning up in the classroom aimed at both teachers, female teachers and other students, female students.

This language and behaviour normalises violence and oppression of women and

It's being fed to our young boys that if you set up an account mimicking a teenage boy, it takes an average of 26 minutes before algorithms start feeding you misogynistic content.

Like it's deliberate.

This is not by accident.

This is how big social media companies drive traffic.

They know that division, hostility, anger, insecurity all feed their profits and

And they are deliberately sucking our boys into this type of material.

So we need to challenge the social media companies and the way they make their money.

But the best antidote to that right now is actually the real world influence.

of loving, supportive figures in boys' lives that particularly they look first of all to their fathers or father figures.

Mums also have a huge influence here.

And then our institutions, our schools, our sporting clubs and other institutions can also play that role.

As a government, we're taking on legislating a digital duty of care.

We've already banned social media for under 16s.

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