Are Dads still being McIntoshed?

Here’s some rare good news about our Family Court system. Fewer dads with very young children are being denied overnight care of their infants and toddlers.   That’s a very big deal because up to three years ago most fathers lost out when they went to court seeking any overnight care. Lawyers used to joke

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Uni holds workshops on ‘male privilege’

Students described how white, male students talked over them in class. Picture: istock “Privileged” male students have been told to be more like women by curbing their confidence and refraining from dominating or showing off during classes, following workshops run by the University of Melbourne Student Union. Men should also acknowledge that being born male

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‘You can’t tell me women don’t lie, of course they do’: why Men’s Rights Activists hate AVOs

Buried in an obscure nook of the budget was a humane and overdue measure, a good news story so pure it’s puzzling the government didn’t promote it beyond a passing mention in Treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget speech. It’s simple and sensible, and it should have been enacted long ago: domestic violence victims will no longer

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Red roses – for a domestic violence order

I have worked with men/fathers for the last 22 years – helping them to stay in their children’s lives and survive after separation. I thought that I had heard it all, that is in domestic violence complaints until I received a phone call from an 80 year old gentleman who told me he had been

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Stand up against dangerous Family Law changes

Augusto Zimmermann, WA Law Reform Commissioner is calling for us to challenge the “dangerous family law changes” and to encourage people to complete the questionaire. Sent: Tuesday, 9 May 2017 7:23:12 PM Subject: Stand up against dangerous Family Law changes – recruit people for questionnaire Below is an important message from my friend Bettina Arndt.

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Relationship breakdown factors in Male suicide

For many years, suicide has been regarded as a mental health issue despite warnings from this Agency and others, that many men take their own life when faced with a relationship breakdown and the ongoing effects of the legislation and attitudes that work to deny men/fathers a life with their children after separation. Government policies

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Mum who admits to manslaughter of baby is ‘already suffering a worse sentence than any judge could impose’

A 41 year-old Sydney woman who drowned her infant daughter because she was convinced the baby was a dwarf, should not go to jail, a court has heard. AAP, The Daily Telegraph April 28, 2017 3:34pm A SYDNEY woman who was severely mentally ill when she left her baby face down in a bathtub is

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Red Pill film: feminist protests black out cinemas

The Red Pill has been barred from certain cinemas. A Sydney cinema has become the latest venue to cancel a screening of men’s rights film The Red Pill, which has been the subject of feminist activist protests since it was released. Dendy Cinema Newtown in Sydney’s inner west canned a sold-out screening of the film

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Joey died from horrific abuse ‘because he looked like his father’

Joey was just shy of three years old when he was taken into the ­custody of his mother and stepfather. Seven weeks later, he was on life support in hospital. After three days, he was dead. Yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court, Joey’s guardians were found guilty of his murder by a jury that took

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New puritanism at work in refusals to show film The Red Pill

Illustration: Sturt Krygsman The Australian 12:00AM April 19, 2017 Save Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on email Share more… 406 JANET ALBRECHTSEN Columnist Sydney @jkalbrechtsen The liberal democratic model doesn’t need a tune-up; it needs a full body overhaul. Increasingly, the university campus — the very place where young minds should be challenged

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