Today's Sydney Morning Herald features an article by Guy Mosel titled 21st century man: lost and anachronistic. Overall it's a very good overview of the various strands of the men's movement. However, it suffers from a couple of problems that most med...
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Spring sunshine on a Tuesday morning and I am musing on the emails and letters that I have been receiving over the past few months from mothers, fathers, grandparents and other family members, all on the subject of family separation, some on related is...
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) is often framed as a “woman’s issue” or “violence against women” generating the perception of males involved in violent relationships as the aggressor and more capa...
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) is often framed as a “woman’s issue” or “violence against women” generating the perception of males involved in violent relationships as the aggressor and more capa...
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The NSW Government Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues this week released their report on domestic violence trends and issues in NSW: the first ever to acknowledge the existence, needs, barriers to reporting and barriers to ...
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The White Ribbon Foundation is an organisation that works to prevent male violence towards women – a goal that is extremely worthy and worth supporting. The White Ribbon website states that “all forms of violence are unacceptable,” ho...
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Sarah Isaac is currently researching the topic of men as victims of domestic violence at National Geographic and is looking for a younger male victim/survivor who is happy to talk on camera. The reason behind this being that they want to highlight tha...
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This inquiry is a current Legislative Council inquiry conducted by the Social Issues Committee . The inquiry was established on 25 July 2011 to inquire into and report on domestic violence trends and issues in New South Wales. The terms of reference w...
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Please read the following letter that was sent to Tony Windsor, Federal Member for New England, on the proposed 2011 child custody/family law changes currently before Parliament, designed to prevent most separated fathers from having contact with thei...
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Posted in Discrimination, Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Family Violence, Fatherlessness, Fathers, Gender Equity, Non-Custodial Dads, Parental Alienation, Political Activism, Shared Parenting, Topics & Issues | Comments Off on Kids to be denied their Fathers, because of ONE Man’s vote – Tony Windsor
The following statement seeks to correct the public record with respect to some minor and inadvertent inaccuracies that were contained in the book “Child Abuse and Family Law” that was published in 2007 by Allen and Unwin and co-auth...
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Posted in Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Misinformation, Mythbusters, Mythbusters: Family Law & Divorce, Mythbusters: Violence, Topics & Issues, Violence | Comments Off on Monash academic retracts erroneous claim that DV is major cause of divorce
Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for Justice Brendan O’Connor today released a new Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) report Children’s exposure to domestic violence in Australia.
In this paper, current knowledge about...
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Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, attacks the Gillard Labor government's changes to the Family Law Act which will water down provisions giving non-custodial parents (mostly fathers) equal access to their children. Transcript from Hans...
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Posted in Child Abuse, Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Family Violence, Fathers, Feminism, Parental Alienation, Policies, Shared Parenting, Topics & Issues, Violence | Comments Off on The Feminist Trojan Horse in Family Law
Family violence has, in recent years, been subjected to a very short sighted restricted analysis that is based on stereotypes of victims and abusers. Typically, the "victim" is depicted as a timid, oppressed female and the abuser is portrayed as a brut...
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Posted in Child Abuse, Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Family Violence, Fathers, Parental Alienation, Policies, Shared Parenting, Topics & Issues, Violence | Comments Off on Mean spirited ideology or a presumption that every child wants the love of both parents in equal measure
On 25 March 2011 the Senate referred the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011 for inquiry and report. The bill makes amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 to prioritise the safety of children in parenting mat...
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Posted in Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Events, Events: Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Events: Family Law & Divorce, Events: Family Violence, Events: National, Events: Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Family Violence, Inquiries, Topics & Issues, Violence | Comments Off on Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011 Inquiry
The Secretary of the Shard Parenting Council of Australia, Mr Wayne Butler has published a short assessment of the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011. It is very much in haste but he sees 4 key areas that n...
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Posted in Domestic (Intimate Partner) Violence, Family Law & Divorce, Family Violence, Political Activism, Topics & Issues, Violence | Comments Off on Secretary SPCA comments on the Family Law Legislation Amendment Bill 2011
