“We have never had any big backers, to this day we have no big backers I currently have half a million dollars in legal invoices sitting on my desk… I was talking to a senator & she was flabbergasted at how expensive it is. Yeah, but at least we’re doing the work. Politicians could fix it for free in a week.”
When I was at CPAC, 100% of people I spoke with assumed that I had someone wealthy behind the scenes paying all of the legal bills. They assumed this because most high profile legal cases in Australia are funded by a wealthy benefactor - the likes of Bruce Lehrman & Ben Roberts-Smith to name just two, the former who even had his living expenses covered during it all - but no, I have never had any offers of major financial support to relieve the stress of public interest litigation that actually does impact the whole country. In a way, it doesn’t bother me, because I think it is significantly more powerful to have 100,000+ people giving $10. That makes a very important point. Other times, it does bother me, because paying for this stupidity is why my hair started to fall out.
I always hate asking for money, it’s so outside my comfort zone. I remember, at one point, when there was a total media blackout in Australia, I thought I was going to have to stand on a street corner with a paper cup saying, “men aren’t women give me money!” But alas, with hard work & a slowly changing zeitgeist, that hasn’t happened… yet.
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Thank you everyone for the continued support. We’re in this together, and we’re about half way between the hearing (August) and the decision (late November/December). 🩷
Men are not women.