Unlike those vile trolls, Catherine Deveny and Mungo MacCallum are a picture of civility

       Just as well The Age and the ABC don’t give oxygen to people who seek attention by slagging off…..     Catherine Deveny in The Sunday Age, Sunday: I REMEMBER when I was about 14 slagging off some poor girl with my classmates … I am no stranger to trolls. They try to get

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Celebrating Father’s Day? White Ribbon prefers man/dad-bashing

To celebrate this Father’s Day, White Ribbon engages in a spot of good old man- and dad-bashing http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/content/to-celebrate-this-fathers-day-white-ribbon-engages-in-a-spot.html If you want to enjoy this Father’s Day and celebrate being a Dad, or indeed celebrate your own father, it might be wise not to read the latest ‘paper’ from the White Ribbon Research Series titled Fathers, Fathering

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Let’s hear it for dad, he’s the man says Kylie Lang

http://www.couriermail.com.au/spike/columnists/lets-hear-it-for-dad-hes-the-man/story-fn8fquew-1226463025067     Fathers will be able to embrace quality time with their children.Source: National Features DEADBEAT dads has a certain ring to it, probably because we’ve heard it so often. But for every father who is at best useless and at worst destructive in the lives of their children, there are others who are

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Paternally grateful

IS there a word for it? I can’t think of one. The label “maternal” is fenced off by women, exclusively, proudly; “paternal” – well, feminism has stained its meaning, it’s veered into something hegemonic, domineering, controlling, hardened, a word a lot of females flinch from by instinct. But how to describe what I see all

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NSW Domestic Violence report recognises male victims

Male victims of family violence face gap in services and need special consideration: NSW Government report The NSW Government Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues this week released their report on domestic violence trends and issues in NSW: the first ever to acknowledge the existence, needs, barriers to reporting and barriers to accessing support faced

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Violent separations put kids in state care

The majority of Australian children in state care are there because of violent family separations, Queensland’s child safety inquiry has heard. One in four children in Australia witness violence against their mother or stepmother, the inquiry’s Commissioner Tim Carmody said on Monday. He also said 90 per cent of Family Court matters involve violent separations.

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Anti shared parenting lobbyists

Recently, we have seen the effects of many years lobbying by women’s groups and academics/researchers in the passage of the Family Law (Family Violence) Act 2010. This Act has effectively ‘rolled-back’ the shared-parenting gains of 2006 by broadening the definition of domestic violence so it now means anything one wants it to mean; removing penalties for false allegations

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The barristers’ way of “dealing” with self-represented litigants

If you are thinking about representing yourself in the Australian Family Court or Federal Magistrates’ Court  then this  report should be part of your required reading. It is important to understand how the other party’s representatives, barrister and/or solicitor will view you as a self represented litigant. In 2001, the New South Wales Bar Association became

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