Shadow minister for future of work, Clare O'Neil Labour MP had a speech at left wing think tank McKell Institute. the first good thing about the speech is the title: Australian men and the future of work. usually only women are mentioned as a disadvantaged group, why the shift ? she say :

One problem I see is that the public conversation – like so much of the political discussion today – feels to me very polarised. One viewpoint is that women have things worse, so mens’ issues shouldn’t be in focus. The other says men are the victims, and the ones that need their rights protected. There is a hell of a lot of space in the middle here. Surely we want a debate which argues that the advancement of women is right and important, but that also allows for an open discussion about the place of men in the new society and economy.

We want men to engage in these discussions, but I hear a public conversation that seems to infer that all men are one homogenous group – and that’s a barrier.  It is absolutely the case that a group of economically and socially privileged men are the big winners in the future of work. But for many Australian men, things are going backwards. The public discussion just doesn’t reflect their reality.

And I worry because if we don’t do a really good job at expressing these concerns in politics, more Australian men and women will look to the fringes – to political shysters like One Nation – for that conversation. And that’s terribly, terribly bad for our country.

One Nation is the party who proposed to create a Minister for Men and they are responsible for the current inquiry into the family courts to see if they discriminate against men.

She also admit that talking about men's issues is a taboo:

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But there’s a broader political culture here that I worry isn’t leading to the kind of open discussion that we need to move forward. We are clearly comfortable talking about issues that primarily affect women – and that’s brilliant, and important. But I wonder if we feel the same freedom to give unapologetic focus to some of the issues I’ve discussed today.

It worries me because there are some crucial questions here that we need to talk about. We are building an economy where physical strength is not as highly valued as it used to be. What does this mean for many men? The fastest jobs growth in our economy is in the care economy, where men are really thin on the ground. Shouldn’t we be concerned about that, and what do we do? Many Australian boys are not getting what they need from the education system. What needs to change?

These are big, national problems. But at times, the discussion about issues affecting men feels truly fraught.