Why I’m not done fighting – for animal rights, and for women

‘Like all women before me have had to do, I will continue calling out injustice as long as it exists,’ says animal rights activist Georgie Purcell. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Monday was the day that duck shooting should have been banned in Victoria. Instead it was the day we saw the government betray parliamentary processes, our wildlife and our community. And somehow, that day ended with a bizarre form of sexism against me.

I won’t pretend public life since my election as an MP has been easy, especially as a young woman.