let's bring injanine hendry. janine bring in janine hendry. janine hendry, bring injanine hendry.man for the march fourjustice rallies. ~ , ., , , rallies. why now, why this moment? _ rallies. why now, why this moment? i think as - rallies. why now, why this l moment? i think as you said rallies. why now, why this - moment? i think as you said in your introduction, the women of australia have seen this build—up over a long period of time in the last few weeks we have seen our government's woeful inaction to these alleged sexual assaults which have in our house of parliament but i also think it is symptomatic of a lack of structural reform in relation to equity across australia. we had report after report on the issue of equity and particularly women that our government has just failed to do nothing about. wide media criticised the prime minister but not doing enough, not addressing this strongly enough. addressing this strongly enou . h. ~ , ., , enough. the prime minister has invited you and other _ invited you and other organisers to meeting in parliament house to address this b

janine hendry there., who have come out to protest. it's unclear what tangible change of this is going to make. but what this movement has already done is allow women to make their voices heard and speak out against the system they say has silenced them for years. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. the music industry prepares for the grammy awards — its biggest night of the year. we have close apartheid. more than 3000 subway passengers were affected. nausea, bleeding headaches and dimming of vision caused by an organised attack. this was an international trophy and we understand now that the search for it has become an international search. this was a term for the christian democrats of the west _ christian democrats of the west. that's what the voters wanted~ _ this is bbc news, the latest headlines. myanmar suffers one of the bloodiest 2a hours since the military coup,as more than 20 demonstrators are killed in a single neighbourhood of yangon. the british home secretary orders an investigation i

let's speak now to janine hendry — she's one of the organisers of women's march fourjustice protestson bbc news. some of the allegations and revelations about the political world have beenjaw—dropping, really portraying much of australian politics as a sort of toxic boys club. what was the public reaction to that before you started organising these large demonstrations? if organising these large demonstrations? �* , ., ., , , demonstrations? if it's “aw-dropping in the ou demonstrations? if it's “aw-dropping in the you cannot h demonstrations? if it'sjaw-dropping in the you cannot begin _ demonstrations? if it'sjaw-dropping in the you cannot begin to _ demonstrations? if it'sjaw-dropping in the you cannot begin to imagine i in the you cannot begin to imagine what it is like for us down here. i think the women of australia have sacked 5a many months watching what was going on in our parliaments, and itjust got to the point where we recognised very clearly that this and all of the other abuse and gender violence that is occurring against women in australia was really occurring as a res

i've been speaking to one of the organisers of women's march fourjustice protests in australia, janine hendry going on in our parliaments, and itjust got to the point where the we recognised very clearly that they send all of the other abuse and gender violence that's occurring against women in australia was really occurring as a result of structural inequality that exists and is being supported by the australian parliament. it seems to be also that this is the treatment of women not just in politics but the treatment of women in the workplace, the treatment of women in the community, and this can't be put down to just as an old—fashioned rather quaint sexism. absolutely, absolutely. there is just so much structural inequality, and it is really difficult to fathom why. australia was one of the very first countries in the world to introduce equal opportunity legislation, and i think for many women in australia in particular, we thought that we had equal opportunity, but what appears to have happened is we got on with our lives and walking behind us, all these varying misogynistic structures ha