No language column can ignore Professor Brendan Murphy’s extraordinary 78-word definition of ‘woman’. As you know, when he was questioned during a Senate hearing by Speccie contributor and Senator Alex Antic, Australia’s top health bureaucrat failed to answer the question: what is a woman? He ducked and weaved saying: ‘Look, I think there are a variety of definitions’ – adding that he needed to take the question on notice, and have his department prepare a definition.