How the women’s safety summit laid bare Morrison’s empathy gap

The federal government’s national women’s safety summit was a platform for experts and advocates to discuss key issues around gender equality and violence against women and children. But Scott Morrison’s keynote address – and his failure to enact meaningful reform on key issues – has left some underwhelmed, and others furious.Political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about Australia’s ongoing cultural reckoning for women and how the Morrison government’s response to this is hamstrung by an ‘empathy gap’