The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is investigating how institutions like schools, churches, sports clubs and government organisations have responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
In its first...
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An online ‘domestic violence study’ has been ordered offline by the University of NSW Human Research Ethics Committee.
Flyers published by the survey organisers have been ordered destroyed.
The study, being conducted by the Gendered Violen...
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Boys struggling to find their self-worth ... Photo: Getty Images
Given the current deep community outpourings of concern for the senseless violence present on Australian streets at night, the disturbing numbers of little boys being suspended and expel...
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Powerhouse Programs is the creation of Stephen Halsall and Andy Roy. Both Stephen and Andy have been heavily involved in working with men and boys through well-respected national community development organisations. Their lives and relationships have ...
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My name is Aaron Schultz and I am a 41 year old Father of two boys from Hobart Tasmania. I have had some major concerns for a while now around the high levels of alcohol and fast food promotion in sport and am worried about the effect it has on mine an...
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The centrality of a father or male mentor in the life of a young man is discussed by the director of St. Francis House, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. A brief description of this home for boys 18 years and older who have come from extremely difficu...
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In this month's issue:
grey is the new black in workplace dynamics
boys hit by body blues
engaging men national training seminar
art therapy - ahead of its time
13 reasons it’s unlucky to be a male
news briefs
World Cancer Day 4 February 2013
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An abridged version of this article appeared as an op-ed in the Newcastle Herald on November 17, 2012, and on the Online Opinion website on November 23, 2012.
November 19 is International Men’s Day: a time to promote male role models; to celebra...
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The inaugural Victorian Male Health Conference is less than one week away and there has been an important development:
Unfortunately the Conference has not been able to attract sufficient registrations to make the Gathering financially viable over two days.
Consequently, the Gathering has been reduced to a one day program to be held on...
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Immediately following the Victorian Male Health Gathering, keynote speaker Celia Lashlie embarks on a speaking tour to seven locations across Victoria. She will present her observations arising from The Good Man Project, in which she visited 25 ...
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Male Health Victoria is proud to announce the inaugural Victorian Male Health Gathering 2012 - The Journeys of Men and Boys. November 19-20, 2012.
Please see this flyer for more details, or visit the Gathering webpage at http://malehealthvic.org.au/con...
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Australia will be the first country to offer males free access to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, after the federal government announced it would spend $21 million to immunise nearly 900,000 boys across four years.
The new program, which will sta...
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Religious circumcisions are bodily harm and thus a crime, a German court ruled this week, in what was dubbed a precedent-setting decision.
Non-medical circumcision is a "serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,&rd...
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Police have laid seven charges against a female former teacher at a northern beaches high school, who is accused of grooming a teenage male student for sex.
The woman was arrested at a unit block in Dee Why at 9.15am and taken to Dee Why police station...
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The number of boys and men seeking help for eating disorders is on the increase according to statistics from South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG).
Last year 9 per cent of our eating disorder patients at the SWLSTG s...
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Father’s Day is fast approaching. Few more days to go and we will be celebrating this day with overwhelming gratitude for our dads.
In a half-century study involving over 10,000 people from around the world, researchers from the University of Co...
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