Time to reinstate the presumption of innocence

I sent this email off to Ray Hadley on 2GB radio this morning. His program was mostly about the false allegations launched at Porter. Now is a good opportunity to send emails, call radio programs, write to the media to emphasise that false allegations are not a new problem, but frequently relied on in DV,

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Porter, the attorney-general denies the allegations, but admits he can’t disprove them

Porter speaks Attorney-General Christian Porter. Image via ABC News Attorney-General Christian Porter has come forward as the government minister accused of raping a 16-year-old in 1988, denying the allegations and refusing to step down. Porter said that “nothing in the allegations that have been printed ever happened”, that he had never seen the accuser’s statement and

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Men’s Rights Agency submission, letter and Questions on Notice to Family Law inquiry

Men’s Rights Agency submission to the Family Law Inquiry [pdf-embedder url=”https://mensrights.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MRA-submission-FL-Inquiry-2020-feb27-20-final.pdf” title=”MRA submission FL Inquiry 2020 feb27-20 final”] Men’s Rights Agency response to Questions on Notice [pdf-embedder url=”https://mensrights.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20-Mens-Rights-Agency-QONs-1.pdf” title=”20 Men’s Rights Agency QONs”] Men’s Rights Agency additional information not able to be supplied during Committee hearing due to rudeness of two questioners. [pdf-embedder url=”https://mensrights.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Letter-to-Family-Law-Inquiry-corr.pdf” title=”Letter

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Two babies die…. mothers accused

Two babies die ….. mothers accused! Family of dead baby in agony Georgia Clark, Brisbane Courier Mail A baby girl, eight weeks old was allegedly drowned by her mother. The newborn’s lifeless body was discovered in the bath at the home on Sedgman Crescent in Shalvey, west of Sydney, by the father when he returned

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Woman pleads guilty to manslaughter charge over coast stabbing

A WOMAN who stabbed to death a man at Emu Park in 2017 has pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter. Kerri-Anne Mesner and kerri-anne.mesner@capnews.com.au February 14, 2020 – 4:20PM Rockhampton Morning Bulletin SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE DISCUSS USE WITH YOUR EDITOR – SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE DISCUSS USE WITH YOUR EDITOR – Kevin John Ryan, 40,

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Anti-Parental Alienation author argues for offence to not be included in DV legislation

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2021/02/04/the-amendment-threatening-to-derail-the-domestic-abuse-bill/?cmpredirecth Grant Wyeth is an academic at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne and a columnist for the Asia-Pacific affairs publication, The Diplomat.  He has a forthcoming journal article in Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly on the phenomenon of Parental Alienation.: sWyeth has written an article that is full of misinformation, and despicable commentary,

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Law closing in on judges over conduct

Law closing in on judges over conduct Attorney-General Christian Porter has sought legal advice on the design of a judicial complaints agency. Picture: Getty Images EXCLUSIVE NICOLA BERKOVIC LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT AN HOUR AGO FEBRUARY 11, 2021 NO COMMENTS Federal judges would be overseen by a new agency that could investigate allegations of corruption and other

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Former White Ribbon Chair, Andrew O’Keefe facing DV charge

Channel 7 personality Andrew O’Keefe facing domestic violence charge By John Buckley January 31, 2021 — 6.24pm Sydney Morning Herald Save Share   Channel 7 host and former White Ribbon chairman, Andrew O’Keefe, was arrested by police and charged over an alleged domestic assault on his partner in Sydney overnight. Arrested in the early hours of

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Mums fight for legal rights of their sons

NICOLA BERKOVIc Nathan Katterns and daughter Iyla, who was murdered by her mother; below, Sarah Jane Parkinson, who was jailed for falsely accusing her fiance of rape           All Iyla Katterns wanted was a pink surfboard so she could learn to surf like her dad, Nathan. But she never got the

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Opening Statement by Professor Augusto Zimmermann to the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System (Public Hearing, 8 July 2020)

July 10, 2020 Augusto Zimmermann The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System was appointed by resolution of the Senate on 18 September 2019 and resolution of the House of Representatives on 19 September 2019. The terms of reference of the committee’s inquiry explicitly require the committee to consider the present operation of the family

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