David Leser is a Walkley award winning journalist and author of seven books, including his memoir To Begin To Know: Walking in the Shadows of My Father (Allen & Unwin, 2014) which was shortlisted for the 2015 National Biography Award. His latest book Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing (Allen & Unwin, 2019) is about patriarchy, misogyny and `toxic masculinity’ in the age of the #MeToo movement.