Before You Accept the Title, Understand the Job
Australia is beginning to appoint ministers, envoys and shadow ministers for men. That could matter. It could also become another symbolic accommodation: a new title attached to old policy habits, a few grants, a men’s health campaign, a promise to get men talking, and no serious reckoning with the systems that make male disadvantage politically awkward to see.
So, you want to be Minister for Men? Then, understand the job.
- You must understand that male disadvantage is not reducible to health literacy.
- You must be willing to address male identity, not merely male pathology.
- You must treat fatherhood as an essential relational and social good, not merely a legal or financial status.
- You must insist that violence policy remains evidence-sensitive, non-stigmatising, and able to recognise all victims and perpetrators.
- You must be prepared to disappoint the people who want this portfolio to remain harmless.
- The final test: are you prepared to take a stand?
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