In this month's issue:
new report shows gaps in male health policy
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Men’s Health Week 2012 a huge success
PM’s partner promotes men’s health
Grants to study Māori men’s heal...
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Topics & Issues
EMALE Issue 112 (July 2012)
Regional Suicide Prevention Consultations: 10 July to 13 August 2012 (NSW)
The Hon. Mr Kevin Humphries MP, Minister for Mental Health, recently established the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Suicide Prevention as part of the implementation of the NSW Suicide Prevention Strategy 2010-2015.
Using the NSW Strategy as a refere...
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Dads and partners now have legal right to ask for time off work when a new baby arrives – Australian Council of Trade Unions
Dads will no longer have to justify asking for time off work when their new baby arrives, thanks to new laws that ensure they have the right to access paid parental leave.
ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said unions had campaigned for paid parental leave f...
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Devlin: Stop picking on our menfolk | adelaidenow
TELEVISION is filled with male characters who are hopeless, uninterested, bumbling idiots, writes Rebekah Devlin.
We womenfolk are often referred to as the fairer sex, but perhaps blokedom should be labelled the unfair sex.
You see, fellas get a raw d...
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The voices of children in family law cases (The Law Report, ABC Radio National, audio & transcript)
Front and centre in family law matters is the best interests of the child. There's been much discussion about the impact of expanded definitions in recent amendments to the Family Law Act. But the reforms also include a new object: the United Nations C...
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Religious circumcisions are crimes says court (Germany)
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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Professor John Macdonald on men’s health and wellbeing (Midday, ABC Classic FM, audio interview)
John Macdonald is Foundation Chair in Primary Health Care at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). John is currently the Director of the Men's Health Information & Resource Centre at UWS.
Presented by Margaret Throsby
John Macdonald has 10 years...
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The ‘wage gap’ myth rears its ugly head once again – update
The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) has issued a media release claiming that Australian workplaces discriminate against women because of an average gender wage difference between male and female graduates of $2,000. The sourc...
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Child sex case: female former teacher arrested on Sydney’s northern beaches
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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I swear I’m becoming more like my father
Having two young boys can really put the stress on the F-word.
It is Saturday. I am lying in bed reading the news on my iPad. I find myself at an exasperated loss, unable to relax, having just screamed (again) at my sons for running around the house li...
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13 reasons it’s unlucky to be a man (UK)
When your life is committed to helping the world work for everyone – men and boys included – it’s easy to forget that most people don’t see the inequality and discrimination that men and boys face on a daily basis.
So to help us sp...
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The New Manhood (Steve Biddulph) part three: "Being a real father"
Men's Health Australia is proud to be able to present to you a series of three weekly excerpts from Steve Biddulph's The New Manhood: The handbook for a new kind of man (with many thanks to Finch Publishing, Sydney).
The third excerpt comes from ...
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New gender equality law a step closer
A new law to promote gender equality in Australian workplaces is a step closer following the passage of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012 through the House of Representatives late yesterday.
Helen Conway, Director of ...
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Divorced men a good catch: report
Road to happiness? ... divorce no longer a turn-off for women.
Do divorcés make better potential partners than men who have never married? A New York news station reported last month that divorced might be the new single. According to WABC-TV, ...
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Engaging men in family based programs Workshops (Sydney, NSW, ACT & Tasmania)
This workshop allows workers, organisations or networks of services to provide more effective programs to men and families. The workshop explores the importance of the fathers’ role in family services and how programs can engage and support this ...
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A Father’s Day downer (USA)
Dustin Hoffman in 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer." Children need their fathers!
How courts and the culture disrespect dad
By Barbara Kay / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Sunday, June 17, 2012, 4:47 AM
From the loving, engaged portrayals of fathers featured in recent...
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