Perhaps what Australia needs to do is sign up to the Istanbul Convention! While normally seen as a set of measures to fund feminists and restrict men's rights (and touted as something to help women be safer) it does include the requirement that the signatory does not put women in any position of danger.
Applied properly, that means that female soldiers, police officers and firepersons are banned.
(Please note: this is not really a serious suggestion. The Istanbul Convention is so bad that it has been constitutionally challenged twice and Turkey itself, who signed, has since denounced it.)
This is one of the reasons why I quit active participation in the NSWRFS after 43 years.
Perhaps what Australia needs to do is sign up to the Istanbul Convention! While normally seen as a set of measures to fund feminists and restrict men's rights (and touted as something to help women be safer) it does include the requirement that the signatory does not put women in any position of danger.
Applied properly, that means that female soldiers, police officers and firepersons are banned.
(Please note: this is not really a serious suggestion. The Istanbul Convention is so bad that it has been constitutionally challenged twice and Turkey itself, who signed, has since denounced it.)