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Talking Point: Root causes of domestic violence are ignored by grand plan

17 August 2015/Domestic Violence/ Leave a comment

http://m.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-root-causes-of-domestic-violence-are-ignored-by-grand-plan/story-fnj4f64i-1227485748237 Premier Will Hodgman, Our Watch chairwoman Natasha Stott Despoja and Australian of the Year Rosie Batty after the release of the Government’s domestic violence plan. Picture: RICHARD JUPE POLITICIANS are a shallow lot these days. Good policy, policy based on evidence and on ensuring dealing with existential issues, is jettisoned for headline grabbing

More mothers kill their children

14 August 2015/Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Violent Women/ / 2 Comments

The main killers of children in Australia, according to the latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Criminology (2010-2012), are: Mothers (47%, n=20) Fathers (30%, n=13) Mothers’ new male partners (19%, n=8) The phrase “women and children” excludes the fact that many killers of children are women. By consciously ignoring this fact, Keneally,

Why men feel aggrieved in family court interventions

14 August 2015/Domestic Violence/ Leave a comment

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/why-men-feel-aggrieved-in-family-court-interventions-20150810-givcxp.html 11 August 2015 Comments 45 Michael Challinger A legal process to restrain family violence needs to work faster and more fairly. Photo: Intervention orders do more than just restrain violence. Often they separate a man from his children, evict him from his home and deprive him of his property. Photo: Craig Sillitoe My client Tom* was

Akon Guode charged with murdering three of her children in lake tragedy

11 August 2015/Child Abuse/ Leave a comment

Woman charged over Vic lake deaths A MOTHER has been charged with murdering three of her children after the Wyndham Vale lake tragedy. Akon Guode, 36, faced an out of sessions hearing last night after she was taken into custody at Melbourne West police station just after midday. She was charged with murdering

The hidden politics of family violence

8 August 2015/Domestic Violence/ Leave a comment

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2015/08/08/the-hidden-politics-family-violence/14389560002224?utm_source=The+Saturday+Briefing&utm_campaign=52e799caf8-The_Saturday_Briefing_08_08_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de0204698-52e799caf8-303191829 Two days before Christmas, the freshly anointed premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, announced the establishment of a royal commission on family violence. “The whole system is broken,” he said. “It doesn’t protect the vulnerable, it doesn’t punish the guilty and more of the same policies will only mean more of the same tragedies.” Andrews

Mark Latham: campaigns on domestic violence must not miss the real targets

29 July 2015/Domestic Violence, Feminism/ Leave a comment

Domestic violence victims in highrisk areas lose out in the focus on false “hot spots”. Georgia Osland One of the fascinating aspects of modern Left-wing culture is the creation of false notions of victimhood. Left-feminists in particular spend a lot of time constructing a world of persecution around themselves.In an era in which women are dominating men in

Are family law courts biased against men?

29 July 2015/Discrimination, Family Law, Fatherhood/ / 2 Comments

14 Comments MEN GETTING A BAD DEAL: A prominent Family law expert believes men are not getting a fair hearing in divorce matters. Candyboximages Related Items OPINION: Is the Family Law Court unfair to men? Solicitor supported on claims of bias in Family Law Court IS OUR family law system unfair to

‘Deadbeat dads’ face fines in sweeping changes to child support

17 July 2015/Child Support/ / 3 Comments

Parents who refuse to pay child support should be fined while those who waste children’s maintenance money should have the cash quarantined, a federal parliamentary inquiry has recommended in the biggest shake-up of child support in a generation. A crackdown on “deadbeat dads’’ who owe $1.4bn in child support will be recommended by the House

Parents forcefully blocked from seeing kids could be abuse

18 June 2015/Parental Alienation, Shared Parenting/1 Comment

http://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/is-parent-alienation-abuse/2675874/ STOPPING parents from seeing their children could fall under the definition of child abuse if George Christensen gets his way. The Federal Member for Dawson said he would lobby with Victorian independent Senator John Madigan to have the definition of child abuse widened to include parental alienation. Mr. Christensen said the current system for

Stop stacking the legal deck against dads

18 June 2015/Family Law, Fatherhood, Shared Parenting/ Leave a comment

Photo: Shutterstock As a family-law attorney, it’s been my passion to meet fathers who exhibit the unyielding desire to win custody — or, at the very least, enforce their visitation and decision-making rights in the lives of their children after divorce. This Sunday, there will be many men spending Father’s Day without the ability

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