“Silence is the Accomplice” is a short film produced by the #AustralianArmy that tells the stories of four of its members: four very brave serving soldiers and their experiences with family and domestic violence. Their accounts are confronting, and deeply personal. The people in the film are not actors—they are people from our Army, our
Take a deep breath. It’s started and already doesn’t look good. Last week, real life tears caused flooding when it was announced former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was stepping into the chair of the mental health organisation beyondblue. On Sunday she wrote her first comment piece, ‘Why I’ve stepped back into public life’ for the Sydney
A surprising decision of the Beyond Blue board to appoint Julia Gillard as the next Chair of this non-profit organisation.Gillard expressed her opinion of men in her attack on Tony Abbott. At the time Jeff Kennett was “scathing of the then prime minister’s so-called misogyny speech in which she famously launched a parliamentary attack on
It is with a great deal of sadness that I must let you know that Rob Thomas passed away on Monday 20 March 2017. He finally lost his eleven year battle against prostate cancer. Many of you will remember Rob, always unassuming, quietly spoken, but one of the most dedicated friends of Men’s Rights Agency
A Federal Circuit Court judge has banned a Melbourne mother from using the popular sleep aid melatonin to get her son to sleep. The decision is believed to be the first in which an Australian court has forbidden a parent from administering melatonin, the use of which is widespread among parents of children with autism
Dad ‘held hostage as daughter snatched’ Mazen Hassan Biaoumy is all smiles at the start of the journey, but claims he later wanted to leave the vessel and was held against his will. An Egyptian man is suing the owner of a north Queensland fishing charter, claiming he was falsely imprisoned on the 65-foot boat
A mother accused of murdering her three-year-old son reportedly told police she hated him because he looked like his father, a man she wished was dead. The woman said she had thought about killing her son because she “loved him, but just didn’t connect with him”. “There was a part of me that hated him
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Indeed, a few men have told me they feel like spectators rather than participants in family life because women are self-appointed ringmasters who not only seize the whip but believe there’s only one way of cracking it.
Thanks to Pete Nicholls from Dads in Distress for this important notification of pending changes to family law in its interaction with domestic violence. It is urgent if any has some time to put in a submission. The govt have put out to consultation, a proposed change of family law relating to DV. Responses must