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#45 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Sun Jun 8, 2008 4:59 am
Subject: First Ever Australian Men's Health Policy 		percusso2002
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First Ever National Men's Health Policy

8 June 2008

The Rudd Government will develop Australia's first ever National Men's Health Policy - in recognition of the fact that men often have poorer health than women, are likely to die earlier, and are at greater risk of suicide.

To mark the start of International Men's Health Week, Minister for Health Nicola Roxon is launching the paper "Setting the scene: developing a men's health policy for Australia".

As an initial downpayment on a broader approach, the Government will invest:
  • $460,000 to help prevent suicide in men, through the National Suicide Prevention Strategy
  • $95,000 to encourage men to see their GP

Men's health is too often overlooked. This comes at a cost. We know that:
  • Men are expected to live 4.8 years less than women
  • Men are three times more likely to commit suicide
  • Men experience 70 per cent of the burden of disease related to injury
  • Men are over-represented in deaths related to HIV/AIDS.

The health of Indigenous men is also significantly worse than for any other group in Australia, with an average life expectancy of only 59 years - some 20 years less than non-Indigenous Australian males.

The Government's decision to develop a National Men's Health Policy recognises that men have specific health needs and challenges.
The funding for the National Suicide Prevention Strategy will include:

  • $122,000 for the Men's Health Information and Resource Centre Men's Shed, University of Western Sydney;
  • $80,000 for the Toowoomba Older Men's Network (TOMNet);
  • $150,000 for OZHelp Tasmania, a workplace program; and
  • $117,000 for INCOLink in Victoria to undertake suicide prevention with apprentices in the building and construction industry.

Funding of $95,000 will be provided to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners to help establish the "Would you pass a Roadworthy?" campaign - to encourage men to see their GP for preventive health checks.

Men's health deserves attention. Over the next twelve months, the Government will develop a comprehensive men's health policy. We want to know what men consider to be the priorities for their health, and we want to look at how we can build up the evidence base in this area, including opportunities for research over the long term.

Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed internal cancer in Australia, with more than 15,000 cases diagnosed each year. Prostate cancer is also the second leading cause of cancer death in Australian men, with almost 3,000 dying of prostate cancer in 2005.

This was recognised in last month's Federal Budget, with the Government committing $15 million to set up two dedicated prostate cancer research centres.

Australian men have the second highest rate of bowel cancer in the world, after New Zealand. Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in Australian men, after prostate cancer. And yet, it is one of the most preventable cancers.

The Government has responded by expanding the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program at a cost of $87.4 million over three years.

Consultations will be held throughout Australia, including a forum to be held in Canberra towards the end of 2008.

PDF printable version of First Ever National Men's Health Policy (PDF 26 KB)

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr08-nr-nr094.htm?OpenDocument&yr=2008&mth=6
A copy of the paper on the development of a National Men's Health Policy can be found at http://www.health.gov.au/menshealthpolicy

Media inquiries only: Sean Kelly - 0417 108 362
For all other inquiries please contact the Minister's office - 02 6277 7220

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#44 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Mon Jun 2, 2008 12:59 pm
Subject: More false hope for parents kept from their children 		percusso2002
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I have just penned an article in response to the article written by Adele Horin at http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/parents-kept-from-children-get-new-hope/2008/05/29/1211654221557.html
 
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Parents kept from children get new hope
Adele Horin
May 30, 2008

PARENTS illegally kept away from their children by aggrieved former partners would have a new government agency to turn to for help under recommendations by the Family Law Council.

The council, the Federal Government's advisory body on family law matters, has called for the establishment of a Child Orders Enforcement Agency, along similar lines to the Child Support Agency.

The agency would respond to complaints from aggrieved parents denied court-ordered access to their children, determine whether the other parent had shown "serious disregard" for the court orders, and help institute legal action in the Family Court to ensure compliance.

The council's report, "Improving Post-Parenting Order Processes", was prepared in response to a reference from the former attorney-general, Philip Ruddock, but is now under consideration by the Labor Attorney-General, Robert McClelland. A committee of eminent judges, magistrates and legal academics wrote the report under Patrick Parkinson, professor of law at the University of Sydney, whose term as council chairman has since expired.

Breaches of court orders for contact between separated parents and their children - and the family law system's response to them - have been a source of complaint for many years, the report says.

Non-resident parents have complained about their former partners openly refusing to comply with a court order, moving residence to make contact difficult or impossible, and being absent when they call for their children.

Resident parents also report problems, including the failure of the other parent to collect or return the child on time, and failure to show up for visits.

About 2500 formal contravention applications - or complaints about breaches of parenting orders - are lodged annually with the Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court, but the report says this is an underrepresentation.

The council said litigants, who were frequently self-represented, were often left to "run the gauntlet of repeated applications" to the Family Court, and the cases took up a great deal of the court's time. "Experience has been that many litigants will drop out, which results in the particular children losing the benefit of the original orders and the recalcitrant party winning out in a war of attrition," the report says.

Serious and wilful disregard of parenting orders was a matter of public interest, it said. The child's best interest was at stake when a parent breached an order that a court had deemed beneficial to the child. As well, such breaches brought the court into disrepute.

The council said a "small, independent [enforcement] agency with offices in each capital city" would be the best way to respond to serious breaches. It would encourage parents to resolve disputes without litigation. But if this was not possible litigation would be instituted in the Family Court with the aggrieved parent able to instruct a lawyer provided by the agency.

Acknowledging the new agency would be expensive to set up, the council proposed providing extra funding to legal aid commissions to help parents fund enforcement matters before the family courts.


More false hope for parents kept from their children
Peter van de Voorde
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June 2008

The Family Law Council, which is the Australian Federal Government's advisory body on family law matters, has called for the establishment of a Child Orders Enforcement Agency, along similar lines to the Child Support Agency.

Aggrieved non custodial parents who have been denied court-ordered access to their children since the inception of a Draconian Family Law Industry some 35 years ago, and who have been calling for such measures to be taken for more than three decades, do not hold their breath. They have long ago lost faith in a system in which the scales of justice are tilted firmly in favour of custodial parents. Any suggested changes to what has been shown to be such a gross travesty of justice for so long, are viewed with great skepticism.

Alarm bells ring immediately when it is noted the council's report, "Improving Post Parenting Order Processes", was prepared by a committee of eminent judges, magistrates and legal academics who wrote the report under Patrick Parkinson, professor of law at the University of Sydney, whose term as council chairman has since expired.

Hundreds of thousands of the nation's victims of the Family Law Industry, both parents and children, have witnessed at first hand how the odds are stacked against them from the moment a parent becomes a Non Custodial Parent.

Where have the above judges, magistrates and legal academics been for the past 35 years? Why has there been such a deafening silence all these years from the above committee members? Were they not aware of what was going on or were they too busy plundering the family wealth from separating families? Did the eminent members of the bench not hear the cries of anguish from the non custodial parents and their children all these years, when they turned a blind eye to the forcible removal of children from non custodial parents by vindictive, and in many cases disordered and dysfunctional Custodial parents. Why for the past 35 years, have members of the bench refused to use the punitive measures at their disposal, in order to ensure that non custodial parents and their children remain connected following parental separation. Their failure to do so is a crime against humanity and an abuse of the rights of our Nation's children.

For the past 35 years we have witnessed the mockery of a Family Justice System pretending to uphold the principle of equality and impartiality in what can only be described as a mal- administration of Family Law matters. Millions of the nation's parents and children, who have had the misfortune to become victims of this Industry, have for the past 35 years protested against the way the scales of justice in Family Law are tipped heavily one way, in order to help maintain the frenzy of the Law profession and their mercenaries, in the pursuit of plundering the family wealth from unsuspecting separating parents.

The Laws governing Family law matters were drafted by Lawyers, with the main beneficiaries being the law profession and associated mercenaries, who have now joined in a growing melee to capture a share of these ill-gotten spoils. The law profession's success depends on how much conflict and animosity is present or can be created, for them to mount an economically successful case. The sole custodial parent model following separation has provided them with a guaranteed high level of ongoing conflict, and by definition it has provided them with a lucrative economic outcome.

Family Laws which were drafted in the early seventies were supposedly designed to help solve the problems associated with the highly emotive issues of parental separation, especially the issue of child custody and the right and need, to ensure ongoing contact of non custodial parents with their children, unless it was unsafe for them to do so.

However whether by accident or by intent THE RELEVANT SOLE PARENT CUSTODY LAWS WERE ADOPTED, SO AS TO GUARANTEE FAILURE, with the resulting horrendous ramifications for all those who incorrectly believed that justice would prevail, and that by using the family justice system, at least enduring contact with their children would be ensured.

This effectively means that any Court Orders you may have obtained, mostly at great expense, have a totally different meaning depending on whether you have been made a custodial parent or a non custodial or contact parent. So there are two totally different outcomes for one set of Court Orders.

1. From the moment you are made a custodial parent, you have effectively been given absolute power and control over every aspect of your children's life, can ignore the Court Orders with impunity, and can eliminate the other parent and extended family members out of the children's life with ease. The methods used have been well documented for decades.

2. From the moment you are made a non custodial or contact parent you no longer have any say in any aspects of what happens in your children's life. You are no longer able to protect them, love, support and care for them and you can be totally eliminated from your children's life with frightening speed and ease. To add insult to injury, you can then be accused of abandoning your children and subsequently labeled a deadbeat parent.

The adverse impact of such injustices are further highlighted by the fact that if a non-custodial parent contravenes articles of the Court Order, such as not returning the children on time from a contact visit, the CUSTODIAL PARENT simply picks up the phone, calls the police and the offending parent is immediately labeled a kidnapper, hostage taker or child abductor, and set upon by various federal and local police agencies. The only cost incurred to the Custodial Parent is the cost of the phone call.

By sharp contrast if the CUSTODIAL parent decides to ignore and contravene the same set of Court Orders, and refuse to let a child have anything further to do with their non custodial parent even if they live in the same street, the non custodial parent's only recourse is to take the matter back to the very Court which failed them so miserably in the first place. No simple phone call for them, but rather further expensive legal proceedings which ultimately lead to nothing, if a recalcitrant Custodial parent decides to ignore the directions of the Court. In their twisted logic the Industry reasons that to upset the Custodial parent would be detrimental to the "Best Interest of the Child". This is what the Family Justice Industry sees as an equitable outcome.

Following 35 years of silence, these eminent members of the Family Law Council committee, have now recommended that a "small, independent (enforcement) agency with offices in each capital city" would be the best way to respond to serious breaches of contact orders. They have suddenly decided that serious and willful disregard of parenting orders was a matter of public interest and that a child's best interest was at stake when a parent breached an order that a court had deemed beneficial to the child.. They also belatedly consider that such breaches brought the Family Court into disrepute.

With their collective tongues firmly planted in their cheeks, they suggest these enforcement agencies would encourage parents to resolve disputes without litigation. But then true to form and making sure to protect the lucrative status quo of their Industry and in order to maintain the standard of living of their fellow members of the Law fraternity, they recommend litigation should be instituted against the offending parent in the Family Court with the aggrieved parent able to instruct a Lawyer provided by the agency.

The committee acknowledges their recommendations would be an expensive exercise, and therefore propose that extra funding be made available to legal aid commissions in order to help parents fund enforcement matters before the Family Courts.

To all those who have been a victim of this badly flawed system, it would appear to be nothing more than an attempt to create a growth in public funded ineffectual pursuits of enforcement of contravention orders in the Family Court. Perhaps there is a downturn in the numbers of aggrieved parents seeking justice from this farcical institution.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to recognize that a court which refuses to punish habitual offenders for contravention of their own orders, is going to do anything different just because the aggrieved parents are represented by legal aid Lawyers.

The eminent members of the Family Law Council Committee suggest that such legal actions in the Family Court as they recommend would ensure compliance. With all due respect eminent members, could you please explain how you see your recommendations ensuring compliance?????

This is all smoke and mirrors gobbledygook, designed to make it look as if they are a caring Court with "The Best Interest of the Children" at heart. However all the available evidence would suggest otherwise.

If this committee was even remotely serious at trying to resolve the ongoing flagrant contraventions of Court ordered Contact Orders, it would have been better to consider the proposal by Mr Simon Hunt of a "CONTACT RECOVERY ORDER" or (CRO)

Unfortunately all the available evidence shows that when practical commonsense suggestions are made to resolve this travesty of justice against non custodial parents and their children, it is either ignored or ridiculed by all those engaged in maintaining the status quo for their own self interests.

The following is an explanation of the CROs by Mr Hunt. I believe this would also be a practical and effective low cost mechanism to enforce Court Ordered Contact Orders

The Recovery of Contact Order (RCO) mechanism is a simple way of protecting children facing the separation of their parents and will prevent most custody cases from even starting (because there is no aggrieved party to initiate litigation).

Immediately enforceable Recovery of Contact Order (RCO)

POLICY Protecting children from having of their parents removed by the other upon separation.

THE MECHANISM That any parent denied equal parenting time of their child or children can apply for immediate relief by way of a Recovery of Contact Order (RCO) protecting the child's relationship with both its parents. The excluded parent would obtain the RCO from the police or the magistrate or district court clerks office. Like an AVO or Intervention Order the Recovery of Contact Order (RCO) would be effective immediately and immediately enforceable by the police. It would provide the applicant up to a maximum of seven days of contact with their child per fortnight (or less by agreement).

Like an AVO or Intervention Order the application would go to court within days so that the respondent party, the parent withholding the child or children, has the opportunity to oppose the order.

If the RCO is not opposed it stays in force.

If the RCO is opposed, the arguments and evidence of the respondent parent will be assessed by the court and a decision made to either;

i) dismiss the respondent's case,

ii) refer the matter to the Family Court or Federal Magistrates Court whilst making an interim order for the contact requested by the Applicant Parent up to 50% ie: 7 days a fortnight (or less as agreed), or partial or complete exclusion of the applicant parent. The court may also order that allegations of child abuse or neglect are investigated by an appropriates child protection agency.

Prior to hearing the RCO would be effective immediately and immediately enforceable by the police unless the withholding parent lays criminal charges of abuse or serious neglect with the police, in which case the matter would be heard by the Magistrate or District Court before restoration of contact (50% or less by agreement) can be enforced.

VERY YOUNG CHILDREN RCOs would not be effective immediately or immediately enforceable when the child is less that one years old or is being breast fed but would none the less be promptly adjudicated by the Magistrates court.

FAMILY VIOLENCE Allegations of violence, be they genuine or contrived, would not be grounds to exclude one the child's parents when third party change over arrangements can be made.

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#43 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Mon Jun 2, 2008 8:55 am
Subject: SPCA Media Release - NSW LAW SAYS FATHERS NOT REQUIRED - 1 June 2008 		percusso2002
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NSW LAW SAYS FATHERS NOT REQUIRED

PARENTAGE & FATHERHOOD
 
A child in NSW will legally be able to have two mothers and no father under new laws being fast-tracked through the NSW Parliament. The concept of a two-mother family is set to be enshrined in law, taking away the need for fathers when lesbians and their partners have fertility treatment. "Children's rights advocates and parenting groups are horrified at this development which extinguishes the child's inalienable right to have and know his or her own natural father", Federal Director of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia, Mr Ed Dabrowski said today.
 
"The Bill is a scandal", said Mr Dabrowski, "because it will eliminate fatherhood by creating a false record as to the child's true parent, replacing the biological natural father with the name of the mother's de-facto lesbian partner on the birth certificate. It will create a presumption of parentage which is a legal fiction." Mr Dabrowski emphasised that "Australians want the truth about parentage to be recorded on birth certificates, not a made up lie that denies there ever was a father".
 
"It would be wrong to pass a law where parenthood was not recognised because clearly there must be a father for a child. Any fertility treatment with integrity must necessarily include the father and be recognised on the birth certificate", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
"This Bill is radical because it introduces for the first time a definition of parentage (and potentially marriage) which is not based on biological sex. This violates all social norms and accepted standards. The next step will be Transgender couples demanding a right to have children and marriage as well.
 
MARRIAGE RIGHTS - MARRIAGE EQUIVALENCE
 
"The Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Bill 2008, will if enacted, impart equivalent rights to cohabiting lesbians that ordinarily flow from the marriage certificate", "It should be opposed because it exploits children by using their birth certificate to record a false presumption of parentage of a "second mother" ignoring the existence of the "first and natural father"', said Mr Dabrowski.
 
"The NSW Legislation's extension of "marital status" to "marital or domestic status" which when read with the proposed definition of "de facto relationship", conflates and confuses the state of marriage or co-habitation by couples of opposite sex, with the co-habitation of couples of the same sex.
 
The effect of the Bill is to discriminate against millions of NSW mums and dads who will no longer be regarded in law as mothers and fathers, instead being de-gendered to the highly fluid concept of "parent."
 
In tipping the law on its head, a hidden agenda is revealed in the Bill which seeks to impose legal equivalence between same-sex couples and married couples by removing innate differences between traditional mum-and-dad headed families and co-habiting homosexuals", Mr Dabrowski said. "Ideology drives these narrow self-interest groups who aim to hasten genderless marriage by 'legislative stealth' and erode Federal Law which sensibly reserves marriage for a man and a woman", Mr Dabrowski said today.
 
"Ms Verity Firth, Minister for Women, shields her Government's true agenda behind alleged concern for a miniscule minority of same-sex couples, but revealingly then seeks to impose extreme legislation with a radical pro-homosexual indoctrination agenda on all citizens of New South Wales.
 
"The Premier Mr Morris Iemma and his cohorts have neither right nor mandate to attack the very fabric of family life and the safety afforded children in the traditional home. Clearly the goal of this Bill is not to enhance children's rights, but to disregard the traditional family, and its beliefs, and respect for a mum and dad raising the kids", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
What's the alternative?

Mr Butler, the executive Secretary of the Shared Parenting Council said today, "there is no need to reject the fundamental presumption that every child has a mother and a father; leaving dads off the birth certificate is just unnecessary."
 
"In the less common case where the mother's same-sex partner asserts a parenting role but is not listed on the birth certificate, a parenting order from the Family Court would give the non-biological parent equal shared parental responsibility if that is the aim of this rushed legislation", said Mr Butler.
 
FREEDOM & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM / DISCRIMINATION
 
"The misleading claim by Ms Verity Firth, Minister for Women, that the reforms are "expanding protections for same-sex couples", conceals the underlying agenda to remove protection and recognition afforded traditional couples and lower the high esteem held for motherhood and fatherhood in our culture, religions, society and in the law itself.
 
"Volunteer parenting groups and people of conscience everywhere are outraged at this government's attack on fathers and the institution of fatherhood", remarked Mr Ed Dabrowski. "This comes on the heels of a sham inquiry by the NSW Government intended to roll back legislative reform encouraging shared parenting and greater parental involvement by fathers after separation and divorce. What we have here is a particularly evil agenda that extinguishes fatherhood and children's rights and will make use of the term "Father" potentially discriminatory in everyday settings, even at schools and wherever families engage in public life", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
"This Bill increases discrimination and reduces freedom, particularly religious freedom to distinguish between same-sex couples and married couples. Church institutions could be put out of business; particularly those faith-based organisations which fail to recognise or service the "two-mum" family due to the double-bind of respecting State law on the one hand but violating church morality and Church law on the other.
Churches acting true to their faith and beliefs could be found guilty of discrimination and have no choice but to shut down operation of their service agencies", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
"Ms Verity Firth, Minister for Women, promotes de-gendering existing State legislation (over 57 Acts), to promote gay parentage, at the expense of the mums and dads. Her same-sex parentage presumptions will rob Children of their true biological link to their own father and family of origin, as well as hereditary health history, family history and leave gaps in their personal identity. It only compounds the problem of children being artificially conceived to be raised without the richest benefit of a father.
 
"Marriage is a core fundamental social institution; so too is the family headed by both mum and dad - it's the way we transmit our society into the next generation. The NSW Bill will weaken the link between marriage and the natural family, and the overwhelming reality that children are produced as the result of male-female sexual and romantic attractions. Instead of imposing a reckless social experiment we need to teach the next generation; if we want children not to be raised in fatherless households and all the suffering that ensues: we need to raise children to become young men and women who believe it is important that children have a mother and father.
 
NSW Attorney General
 
"It is worth noting that we have further serious concerns about this legislation", said Mr Wayne Butler, the Executive Secretary of the Shared Parenting Council.
 
"The fact this legislation is being made retrospective via clause 2 commencement by proclamation seems to be an attempt to bypass the normal democratic system and normal process of checks and balances. The Government appears in a hurry to set legal precedents which may prove difficult to repeal afterward", remarked Mr Butler.
 
"In the hours before debate on this Bill takes place in the NSW Parliament on Tuesday, the NSW Attorney General has gone into major damage control by suggesting "those mothers and fathers who wish to use the terms "mother" and "father" will continue to be able to do soŠThere will also be the option to use the term parent if that is preferred." The SPCA believes that these statements do not accord with the legislation as written. In any case the Government should not be regulating parental rights and children's rights to the point of extinguishing those rights, or optionally "allowing" parents to continue enjoying their inalienable rights as some kind of exception to the [new] rule.
 
"He then suggests that this is not a matter determined through the legislation but an administrative matter for the Registrar of Birth Death and Marriages.
 
"If this is the case the situation is far more serious. The Bill would increase the latitude and widen the discretion of the Registrar whom already allows "Father Unknown" to be inserted on current Birth Certificates and names of "Other Persons" to be used, with no audit or substantial verification checks done on registrations, nor any confirmation from BOTH parties that the information supplied is correct. The fact that the Department does not apply any substantial penalties for false declaration is also a very major cause for concern.
 
"Hospitals provide birth registration papers to the mother. The new legislation opens the door for any couples that have not yet registered the child on the Birth Certificate or who are experiencing marital discord or who are having disagreement about the name of the child, to have one of the parents (the mother) do as she likes with no recourse from the father.
 
The Attorney General says that the new Bill will give equal rights to children in the areas of "workers Compensation." "This is a complete nonsense", Mr Butler said today. "Workers Compensation is for an injured worker. The financial and economic benefit flows to the family unit not the child through any required legislation", he said.
 
In a letter to the SPCA on Friday the Attorney General said the new law will have both their parents recognised and give equal rights to children of same sex couples across the state, however Mr Butler said "the fundamental fact which has been overlooked, is that children who are brought up in same sex households are already getting the same benefits as other children at school and other social areas where the "other parent" has the benefits that flow through the existing status of guardian which is used on school registrations and other documents."
 
"This Bill is hastily constructed and has not considered the Federal legislation around Child Support and Centerlink benefits", said Mr Butler. Nor has it had wide community input - worse than these omissions, the parents of NSW and their children, being the most significant stakeholders, have not been consulted in this hasty rush to legislate", Mr Butler emphasised.
 
The Shared Parenting Council of Australia (Children's Rights Council of Australia) calls on all men and women of conscience to reject and oppose the Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Bill 2008, and if required, to be prepared to exercise their conscience vote for the safety of children, preservation of motherhood and fatherhood and defence of marriage at the next NSW State Election.
 
Ends.
 
For further information -
 
Edward Dabrowski, Federal Director, Tel. 0409 917 345
Wayne Butler, Executive Secretary, Tel. 0411 850 677
Shared Parenting Council of Australia
 
Footnote:
 
The implications of the NSW legislation and its wording are far reaching. The legislation will:-

  • Treat children as objects and property
  • de -couple the child from his/her natural biological parents
  • de-gender the role of "mother" and "father" by reducing them to "parents"
  • Eliminate "paternity leave" altogether from State law and replace it with the de-gendered "partner leave"
  • equate same sex parentage to traditional heterosexual parentage
  • Deny children the truth as to who is their natural biological father
  • Allow the removal of the natural biological father from the child's birth certificate by an aggrieved partner or failure of the partner to place the correct details on the originating birth certificate.
  • Replace the biological father with the mother's lesbian partner on the birth certificate or other party of convenience
  • Deny children a true and accurate birth record
  • Create a birth certificate which is a legal fiction
  • Severe the record and lineage to children's father and forefathers
  • Prevent children from knowing their family of origin and knowing that part of themselves which comes from their natural father by preventing reunification with their natural father later in life
  • Deny children their hereditary health information including DNA data and transplant possibilities as they will have no father recorded on their birth certificate
  • Deny children their hereditary wealth by having no record of their true father on their birth certificate
  • Make references to "Father" discriminatory with punitive penalties for churches, schools  and faith-based educational institutions
  • Weaken fathers' claims to continue joint custody of their children after separation or divorce as they enjoyed fully in law before the divorce
  • Pitch mothers' female partners against true fathers as potential replacement parents, and subject children's right to their father to adversarial court contests and adjudication

The NSW Legislation will also;
 

  • Send the wrong message that families don't require fathers
  • Imply that it is okay to have "anyone on the birth certificate" and that anyone else could supplant the child's biological parent
  • Weaken the standing of fathers in society and in families and in the eyes of children
  • Allow greater latitude in the Family Court as to presumption of parentage with the risk of fathers having their equal shared parental responsibility and parenting time with their children usurped by a judge's deference to the mother's de-facto lesbian partner who may be presumed by a judge to be an equal or better parent.
  • Single out fatherhood for special treatment - only natural fathers are removed from the child's birth certificate, not the natural mother.
  • Set precedents and opens the gate to future re-assignment of parentage for children which may exclude both their natural mother and father for an alternate set of parents, even if they are less stable, unmarried or in a civil union or de-facto relationship
  • Result in child-support cases that arrive from the dissolution of civil unions (same-sex divorce), which will force courts to give full faith and credit to the unions as though they were a marriage - one small step away from validating gay marriage.
  • Profoundly affect Christian marriages and Christian parenting by diminishing fatherhood and reduce legal protection for the traditional family, by weakening the legal bonds of children to their natural mothers and fathers.

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#42 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Thu May 22, 2008 11:04 am
Subject: Dads4kids Forum - NSW Parliament House, 3rd June 2008, 10am 		percusso2002
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Dads4kids Forum
Tuesday 3rd June 2008 - 10 am to 1.30 pm
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Macquarie St, Sydney

Fatherhood & Family under Threat
Children Need a Mother and a Father

'Father' to go from Birth Certificate is the headline of a story in
the Herald Sun on 18th May 2008. The Same Sex Relationship Bill 2008
will radically alter 57 pieces of important legislation in a
calculated attempt by the NSW Labor Government to discriminate
against men, derogate fathers, fragment families and break the hearts
of our children.

Children need a mother and a father. To deprive them of that right by
government regulation is callous and heartless. Legal advice has
indicated that the proposed bill, as it affects Section 24 of the
Anti-Discrimination Act (1977), could make the word 'father'
discriminatory. Sadly this has already happened in California, USA
after the passing of similar legislation.

Studies from around the world show that children raised by their
natural biological mother and father fare much better than those who
are not raised in a natural-parent family.

A recent Australian study
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23657729-5013404,00.html
showed that children who do not live with their natural biological
father were between 17 and 77 times more likely to die from
intentional violence or accident. These facts are corroborated by
academics from around the world
http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/26-36.pdf .

The NSW Labor Government needs to see that you care about your
children. Mr Iemma needs to know that the fathers and mothers of NSW
will not accept such politically correct madness. Children need a
father and a mother.

Come to NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney on 3rd June for
the Dads4kids Forum. Show the government that you care for our
children.

Speakers: Warwick & Alison Marsh, Fatherhood Foundation; Wayne
Butler, Shared Parenting Council; Richard Egan, Festival of Light;
Barry Williams, Lone Fathers Association and many others from within
the fatherhood/mens and pro-family movements including pro-family
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Date: Sun May 11, 2008 3:10 am
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A PETITION FOR REFORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN FAMILY COURT


"It remains for people of good conscience to speak up about injustice, rascism and inequality - in our

neighbourhoods, in academic debate, in political discourse. And to question, question relentlessly.

Too often people go ahead with policies and attitudes that contradict human rights and are contrary

to our vision of Australia as a place where everyone is treated fairly... Ask questions publically and

demand the answers be explained clearly so that everyone may understand... As Australians let us not

be damned by our silence. Or shamed by our ignorance".

 

"We all have a responsibility to hold up to scrutiny and accountability circumstances where the

human rights of others are compromised"

 

- the Hon. John von Doussa QC, President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

Commisssion.

 
 

His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC                                       

Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia                                                  

Government House                                                                                                 

Dunrossil Avenue                                                                                                                      

Yarralumla ACT                                                                                                                        

2600 Australia.                                                                                                            March 27, 2008

 

 

 Dear General Jeffery,

 

On December 12, 2008, I wrote to you and asked whether you would give a statement of support to

the Petition and bring it to the notice of UNICEF Australia members.  

 

I made this request on the basis "that as patron of UNICEF Australia, you are concerned for the

implementation of UNCROC in all the countries of the world, including Australia, and that an

important function of the Governor-General is to "encourage, articulate and represent" the social

values which Australia considers to be important, and to lend your support to individuals and groups

who strive to make them a reality in every day life in Australia."  

 

As you know, these values include the right of children to shared parenting when both parents are

suited to provide it (UNCROC) and the common law principle that alleged breaches of the law must

be capable of objective determination.

 

My enclosures included the Petition, its research paper, Burke's Backyard: A Window onto the Family

Court of Australia, some high-profile statements of support, and a recommendation from a British

Circuit Court judge that the research should be published in the international legal press.

 

Burke's Backyard details systemic disregard in Australian family law for the United Nations

Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC), the International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights (ICCPR), the Harare Declaration (which sets out the values and principles Australia has

promised to uphold as a member of the Commonwealth), and the common law values encompassed

by the principle of a fair trial. It gives evidence that Australia is almost certainly perpetrating a second

stolen generations scandal, but this time in family law, without regard to race or colour, and on a

larger scale than before.

 

As you know, the history of the Aboriginal stolen generations phenomenon can be seen directly in

terms of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

 

The following is the reply I received from your secretary, Brien Hallett.

 

 

"Dear Mr. Midgley

 

Thank you for your letter and attached petition of 12 February to the Governor General

concerning the Australian Family Court.

 

General Jeffery understands the matter has caused you great concern, however, it would be

inappropriate for the Governor-General to participate in your petition.

 

Thank you once again for writing to the Governor-General.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Brian Hallett

Deputy Official Secretary to the Governor-General

28 February 2008".

 

 

The possibility that Australia could be perpetrating a second stolen generations scandal within a

generation of the first is breath-taking and I suggest Mr Hallett's remarks are a wholly insufficient

response to the evidence I brought to your attention.

 

Consequently, I would like to ask you to look at the matter again taking into special consideration the

following:

 

.    Australia has one of the worst human rights records of any country of the English-speaking

     common law world. It has been widely criticised for its contempt for international law,

     including by the Director-General of Amnesty International, and it is the only modern

     western country to have been declared by the UN to be racist. Its child protection policies

     have a history of not only consistently failing to protect children, but of contributing to their

     mistreatment.

 

 .    Since the enaction of the 1975 Australian Family Law Act, there have been approximately

     69 Acts of the Commonwealth of Australia amending the original Act. During this time,  

     tens of thousands of children - and some say well over a million - have almost

     undoubtedly been wrongly separated from their parents by the Family Court under   

     jusrisprudence and practices which the former Chief Justice of the Family Court,

     Alistair Nicholson, has rightly recognised are oppressive and arbitrary - causing massive  

     long term damage to the social fabric and bringing the Westminster system of  justice into

     disrepute. 

 

.    "The minimum content of the rule of law is that the rights and duties of persons in the

     community, and the consequences of breach of any such rights and duties, must be

     capable of objective determination" (Chief Justice of NSW, the Hon. J.J. Spigelman at the

     7th Worldwide Common Law Judicial Conference, London, 2007).

 

.    As the Crown's representative in Australia, you are not just an 'ordinary man' in a plumed 

     hat and dress uniform, but the embodiment of 800 years of British Commonwealth political

     and social history. The whole movement of that tradition is away from the jurisprudence and

     conditions which direct the administration of Australian family law.  

 

.    Contrary to the impression Mr. Hallet's letter gives, I did not ask you to sign the petition, but

     to give a statement of support.

 

     The role of 'arms-length' statements of support is discussed in the literature on the subject,           

     and I referred you to the statements given by HRH the Prince of Wales; executive Member

     of the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales, and CEO of the Children's Society, Bob  

     Reitemeier; and Patron of the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR), Cherie Booth QC.

     Mr. Hallet's remarks suggest that you consider these people to have behaved

     inappropriately in some way in giving statements, but do not explain how or in what way.

   

     In contrast, the Prince of Wales has said that in his view it would not only be inappropriate,

     but "criminally negligent" if he went round Britain and did not draw public attention to

     important social justice issues, and his statement of support for the Petition suggests that he

     takes the same view in respect of social justice issues in Australia.  

 

.    The failure to speak up is not a position of neutrality as it contributes to holding the status

     quo in place and can be seen as a political act. Put another way, Mr. Hallett's letter gives the

     impression that you support values which are commonly associated with the totalitarian

     state.

 

.    It is a long standing convention in the Westminster system of government that people are  

     free to express their conscience on issues with a strong moral or ethical content.

 

.    The obligation of responsibility on heads of state and their representatives expressed in

     Article 227 of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the Nuremberg principles, and the UN

     Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.  

 

.    Justice von Doussa's comments at the head of this letter.


Re: YOUR ROLE AS PATRON OF UNICEF AUSTRALIA


I was originally recommended to get in touch with UNICEF Australia by Robert Palk of the National

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) (Royal Patron: H.M. The Queen), and I

refer you to his comment in the statements of support I sent you. In the first instance, I wrote to

UNICEF Australia's Executive Committee, but had no reply. My letter to you is therefore my second

approach to UNICEF Australia.  

 

UNICEF Australia's website states UNICEF's work is guided by UNCROC, a set of minimum

international human rights standards for children which Australia has a legal responsibility to uphold

in Australia in full (see the rule of international law, pacta sunt servanda).

 

In respect of your role as Patron of UNICEF, it is generally considered that the responsibility of a

Patron is to serve and act in accordance with the values of the body or institution of which he or she is

patron.

 

The following are some mission statements published by UNICEF Australia on its website:

 

 "The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) sets out basic rights for all children, and is the

foundation of all Unicef's work."

 

"Unicef works to protect children who have suffered from or at risk of violence, exploitation and

abuse".

 

"Unicef works with governments and various organisations to bring children's rights to the centre

of public policy".

 

UNICEF aims to "involve everyone in creating protective environments for children" and

"to achieve equality for those who are discriminated against".

 

I enclose the Petition statement. It has been constructed to reflect the rights of children in UNCROC

and consequently it is unclear how Mr. Hallett can say that it would be inappropriate of you to support

it. Rather, the opposite seems true.

 

As you know, it is sufficient in Australian family law to raise nothing more concrete than suspicion

about people's integrity to obtain a judgement against them, and I assume you would not wish your

own integrity to be subject to the same standard? I would therefore ask you to clarify Mr. Hallett's

statement and identify the principle on which it is based.

 

If you do not reply, I will assume you regard my remarks to be fair.  

 

In view of the importance of the subject, I would very much appreciate a personal response.

 

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Michael Midgley

Campaign Organiser

 

 

Enc.

 

A Petition for Justice and Accountability in Australian Family Law



Copies to:

HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, The Executive Committee of UNICEF Australia, Julian

Burnside QC, Director of Liberty Australia, Michael Green QC, President of the Australian Joint

Parenting Association, Warwick Marsh, CEO of the Australian Fatherhood Foundation, and Max

Clifford of Max Clifford Associates.




Dear Mr. Midgley,
 
Thank you for your letter of 27 March 2008 to the Governor-General concerning your petition for reform of the Australian Family Court.
 
I am sorry to disappoint you, but I can only reiterate previous advice provided by this office on 28 February 2008, that it is not possible for the Governor-General to become involved in issues such as this. May I suggest if you wish to pursue this matter further, that you approach the Hon. Robert McClelland MP, Attorney-General, at PO Box 6022, House of Representatives, Parliament House, Canberra, Act, 2600.
 
Thank you once again for writing to the Governor-General.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Brien Hallett
Acting Official Secretary to the Governor-General
Government House
Canberra
24 April 2008


 
A PETITION FOR REFORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN FAMILY COURT
 
 "Daily we watch as fathers take their own lives unable to accept outcomes and accusations that depict them as guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty. The Australian Family Court is Australia's family shame", Tony Miller, founder of Dads in Distress

 
"We all have a responsibility to hold up to scrutiny and accountability circumstances where the human rights of others are compromised."
 
"By turning a blind eye... we fail to show respect and fairness to those who most need it".

 
"As Australians, let us not be damned by our silence. Or shamed by our ignorance", the Hon. Justice John von Doussa, President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commisssion.
 
 
Brien Hallett
Acting Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia
Government House
Canberra
ACT
2600 Australia.                                                                                                  May 8, 2008.  
 
 
 
Dear Mr. Hallett,
 
Thank you for your letter of April 24 2008.
 
As you know, the Governor-General has a constitutional duty to encourage and support the values which Australia claims to embody and has far-reaching powers to bring about laws which incorporate those values. The values include the right of everyone to a fair trial and the right of children to know and be cared for by both their parents when both parents are suited to parent them.
   
It is consequently unclear how you can make out that it would be inappropriate of the Governor-General to publicly support these values. 
 
I mention these things because if General Jeffery does not support the principle of a fair trial or that of joint parenting, then he is clearly unsuited to be Governor-General of Australia and Patron of UNICEF Australia. In such circumstances, he should resign and give a public apology for accepting positions without understanding or having the intention of discharging the responsibilities associated with them.
 
In respect of your responsibilities as the Governor-General's Official Acting Secretary, you appear to have misrepresented the role of Governor-General to me. I wonder whether you are aware that civil servants are expected to act in accordance with the institutional values they are employed to serve, and that this includes admitting mistakes that they may make and putting them right?
 
In view of the enormous implications of your advice, could you confirm that your letters to me have been written with General Jeffery's approval and explain the principle on which your advice is based in a way that everyone can understand?
 
If I have misunderstood General Jeffery's position in any way, I would ask for a letter of clarification from him personally so as to avoid the impression that you may be acting independently of him or without understanding the responsibilities of your own position. 
 
May I please have a reply by email and confirmation by international post cover.
 
Thank you.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Michael Midgley.

Campaign Organiser
A Petition for Reform of the Australian Family Court
By fax transmission.


Copies to HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales and members of the Australian Family Law Reform Movement.




Burke's Backyard: A Window onto the Family Court of Australia, can be viewed online at http://www.dadsontheair.net/bb.pdf


 
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A PETITION FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN AUSTRALIAN FAMILY LAW

"Australia is a free democratic society which ought to be able to withstand robust debate and criticism against the arms of government. The Family Court is part of the judiciary, which under the Westminster system is one of the arms of government", Gabriel Kuek, Australian Family Court Lawyer.

A Court constituted under a no-fault charter to break up families in secret on no other ground than the creation of suspicion is the stuff of nightmares: The law deprives people of knowledge of their social and political landscape, disenfranchising them from the democratic process, and allows the state to ride-rough-shod over their lives.
WE CALL FOR

. An end to the "lingering doubt"/ "unacceptable risk" test

. the upholding of the presumption of innocence in family law, and the values of accountability, justice and freedom

. respect by government for the fundamental right of children to shared parenting when both parents are suited to provide it

Unjust laws debase democracy and undermine people's safety and respect for government: We call on Australian politicians and judges to think again.
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Date: Sun May 4, 2008 2:02 am
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The recently appointed Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination, Ms Elizabeth Broderick, has spent the last few months undertaking a National Listening Tour to ascertain the views of Australians on three key themes:

  • Economic independence for women,
  • Work and family balance across the life cycle, and
  • Freedom from discrimination, harassment and violence.

To date the Commissioner and her staff have run men's and women's focus groups, spoken to men and women at workplaces, unions, business round-tables, academic round-tables, community groups and public consultations, in both city and regional areas. Information collected from this consultation will be used to inform the agenda for her 5 year term.

On Monday 11th February, a discussion was held at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission covering a number of issues of concern to Australian men and boys. In attendance were the Commissioner, two of her staff members, Greg Andresen (media liaison, Men's Health Australia and researcher, Dads on the Air), Micheal Woods (Senior Lecturer, Men's Health Information & Resource Centre, University of Western Sydney) and Maggie Hamilton (author, "What Men Don't Talk About").

If you'd like to find out more about the issues discussed at this meeting, you can download a Summary Report on the meeting from here, a Full Report from here, and a Briefing Paper that was prepared for the meeting from here.

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The Lost Boys TV series responds to the call of 'the most harmful demographic trend of this generation', a groundbreaking factual reality series that deals with the topic of masculinity through father and son relationships. Would you like to be a part of this exciting venture?
 
I am researching a new observational documentary series called The Lost Boys. It focuses on 5 fathers and their sons and a 28 day cattle mustering expedition. The idea is the time away together will hopefully mend problems in their communications and create a new bond between them.

I am looking for fathers and sons who may be interested in participating. Sons would have to be minimum age 15 through to 24.

I have attached a longer synopsis for you to read and to pass on to any of your members who you think may be interested.

I thank you for your time

Kind regards

Kirsty de Vallance
A Cast of Thousands
02 9413 8640
kirsty@...

Synopsis - The Lost Boys

There are good reasons why modern fathers are estranged from their sons:  divorce, interstate or overseas work, separation, corporate demands, desertion or disinterest.  However, it's becoming obvious that there are no good excuses.  Boys without fathers lack the most important male role-model in their lifetime - the person whose job it is to show them what it means to be a mate, a husband, a worker, a hero, a lover and above all, a man.

Clearly something must be done to address what has been dubbed 'the most harmful demographic trend of this generation'. The Lost Boys responds to this call.

The Lost Boys is a groundbreaking factual reality series that deals with the topic of masculinity through father and son relationships. Five urban, estranged father and son pairs will re-build their damaged relationships by undertaking one of the toughest challenges Australia has to offer - to move 500 head of cattle over 200 miles across the outback, in 28 days, living the life of the quintessential Drover.


The Drover is an Australian icon that holds relevance for all Australians, even though most of us are city dwellers.  The Lost Boys uses the masculine role- models and the vast landscape of the outback to heal the social wounds that are impacting on our cities. 

This is a unique opportunity for fathers and sons to spend time together, learn together, teach one another, face their fears and earn each other's respect on a level playing field.  Endless, hot days of hard work followed by cold nights around the campfire combine to create an emotionally charged experience that will be riveting to watch and relevant to many in the viewing audience. As challenges common to fathers and sons play out for the participants, those watching from home will be given insights and practical tools to apply to their own lives.

Under the guidance of professional cattle men and adventure therapists, the participants won't be able to escape the fact that the only way to successfully complete the task, and claim their pay packet worth thousands, is to get over the past and work together.  This is the best chance they'll ever get to build a paternal bond to ensure that the Lost Boys become found.

* * If you would like to participate in this program, please call Kirsty de Vallance on: 02 9413 8640/ 0403 182293 or email: kirsty@...

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#34 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:16 am
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On Wednesday 19th March 2008 almost 30 key leaders, representing
men's, fatherhood and family groups, academics and health
professionals, met in Federal Parliament to discuss forward motion on
the Labor Party's proposed National Men's Health Policy. You can
download a report on this milestone event from

http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/files/Men_&_Fathers%27_Health_Forum_%2708_Rep\
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Date: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:13 am
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Say Sorry to All - Fatherless Children need Apology Too

The Fatherhood Foundation commends the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for saying sorry to the Aboriginal children stolen from their fathers and mothers but what about the current stolen generation?

Warwick Marsh, of the Fatherhood Foundation said, "It is very sad that aboriginal children were removed from their fathers by white authorities, but what about today's stolen children, both black and white, who have been forcibly removed from the care of their fathers by Australia's Family Law Court. Over a million children live apart from their biological father.

"Both the previous government and the current government rejected the commonsense solution of a presumption of equal shared parenting in the event of family breakdown. We call for an apology to the children of Australia who have been so grievously affected by its ideological hatred for fathers."

Dr Robert Kelso, who has lectured in Public Policy and Ethics and who has conducted research on the effects of Family Law Act in Australia, agrees with Mr Marsh "The Family Law Court is the most divisive court in the nation's history. The court has failed to protect aboriginal children and its associated entities such as the Child Support Agency have produced one of the highest rates of male suicide and male unemployment in the western world."

It is good that the Prime Minister should say sorry to the Aboriginal people, but he should also say sorry to Australia's children for the denial of contact and love of their father. He should also say sorry to the children of Australia for the destruction of their family unit and the loss of their economic future

The Prime Minister should also say sorry to the children of Australia for denying them contact with their extended family, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Justice is not too much to ask

How much longer must our children wait?

Warwick Marsh           Dr Robert Kelso
0418 225 212            07 4939 5626

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Date: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:06 am
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The Estranged Fathers Group ( E.F.G. ) will host a Civil rights
protest in front of the Australian Federal Parliament Lawn in
Canberra, ACT 2600. On 21st February 2008 will be a Day of Hunger
Strike from Dawn to Dusk for Human Rights and to protest against the
gross violation of Human Rights of those Children and their Estranged
Fathers in Australia.

Next days of 22 and 23 February 2008 sit in protest to demand justice
for the victims. Those Children and their estranged Parents [ mostly
the Fathers ] are the Victims ! They were unfortunately alienated and
isolated by the Family Law Court's system. Kindly support this basic
Humanitarian cause to uphold the Humanity !! Please provide your
moral support, Inspire us, Help us & Support us !!! Contact us
immediately if you share our concerns. All Concerned parents are
welcome to join us next week and together we can do something !!!!

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

J. Shibli Mobile: 0432802913
Convenor E-mail: jamshi44@...
Estranged Fathers Group Organizers: 0425805467, 0411212741
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#30 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:17 am
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Mediadads.com is dedicated to Fathers and the bonds they have with their children. It is designed to raise consciousness about how fathers are portrayed in the media, and how they are thought about in the Public Mind.

This site was launched for Father's Day 2007 with a few movie reviews. These are designed to entertain and inform anyone with an interest in what kind of fathers they may find on DVDs or current attractions.

We believe that a father wants to take his kids to the movies to have fun, and maybe to add to their personal and social education. A father doesn't want to take his children to the show only to be ambushed by a movie that disparages fatherhood, or men in general.

This takes on additional importance in today's world, where so many children are being raised in households that may be antithetical to fatherhood. In such cases, a father will want to know if his one visit with the children this week is going to feed a back story in their lives that harms both the children and the father.
While other movie reviewers will outline a plot and tell us about actors, directors and music, they do not specifically address the nature of the fathers in the picture. Mediadads.com is the first website dedicated to providing both. Sometimes irreverent to the norms of the world we find ourselves in, and sometimes tongue in cheek, the reviews you'll find here are designed to be fun, uniquely informative, and always written with a true respect for those who have answered the call of Fatherhood.

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THE GROWTH OF A SOCIETAL CANCER
                                        
By: Peter van de Voorde.  Jan 2008 
                                        
The Family Justice System has become a societal cancer, a place to be avoided at all cost. Like any cancer, if left unchecked, it will continue to grow, gaining momentum and eventually destroying its host victims and subsequently the culture which supports and feeds this malignant growth. It has removed parental rights and replaced them with parental responsibilities. However without rights, parents are denied their human right and duty to responsibly protect and share the love and care of their own biological children.

We are now looking at a 35 year old cancer that has been allowed to grow unchecked and is by far the most dangerous place for men, women and children, to come into contact with, in the event of relationship breakdown.

It has become a law unto itself, a dictatorship within a democracy. Secret and seemingly untouchable, it has been allowed to grow into a multi billion dollar industry, with many poisonous tentacles which have gradually and unnoticeably crept into many of our institutions and bureaucracies. These in turn have each spawned their own agencies and pseudo expert organizations and bodies, who play host to a variety of so called professional expert specialist advisers, who keep feeding the cancer with a continuous supply of misinformation and dodgy statistical data, which flows into the system, thereby guaranteeing malignant growth.

Each tentacle of this cancer is pushing its own immoral agenda, while at the same time comfortably feathering their nests with billions of dollars of taxpayer funded handouts, bolstered by the funds plundered from the hard earned family wealth of unsuspecting separating parents.                   

All of this is made possible because society has unsuspectingly and unquestionably accepted the deliberately deceptive and misleading "Best Interest of the Child" principle.  It is an obscene act of deception to suggest that the "Best Interest of a Child" is best served by giving children rights, when in fact they lack the autonomy and physical ability to enact those rights and while their young developing brains are so vulnerable to emotional, and psychological manipulation and control.

Without question the most dangerous situation for a child to find itself in, is when its parents are coerced into entering the Family Court system. This ensures them being infected by this obnoxious Family Justice cancer, which in fact will guarantee that most of them will have their ties of kinship with many of their much loved biological family members severed.

This cancerous industry, which hides behind the spurious "Best Interest of the Child" principle, in order to justify the removal of these vulnerable children from perfectly loving and responsible family members, is a curse on the health and wellbeing of our society.  To remove those who wish to protect and play a part in the healthy physical and emotional development of their biological family, is universally unacceptable to a civil society.
To allow this dangerous cancer to flourish will eventually destroy our society.  We owe it to the children of today, who are the parents of tomorrow, to relieve them of the burden of being forcibly removed by this malignant societal cancer.  If we fail to do so, history will judge us harshly.  "Parental rebellion is not a crime, it is our obligation."

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#28 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:00 am
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Family Law Action Group (FLAG) is initiating a campaign giving Kevin
Rudd 100 days to prove his claim that he is a Prime Minister for all
Australians.

If you agree with the content, please distribute the attached press
release widely to polit icians, media and interested groups.

Cheers,

Richard Bosi

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ADELAIDE, SALISBURY, MURRAY BRIDGE & SYDNEY COMMUNITY CONSULTATION EVENTS

With Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination.

Have your say on building a fair and equal society for women and men in Australia.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) invite you join HREOC's new Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination, Elizabeth Broderick, for a community consultation.
This consultation is part of Commissioner Broderick's national Listening Tour. The Listening Tour is an opportunity for people all over Australia to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them.

Mon Nov 26, 5.15 - 7.30pm
UniSA Hawke Building - Level 5, Bradley Forum
50-60 North Terrace, Adelaide
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Thu Nov 29, 12 - 2pm
Council Chamber, Local Government Centre
2 Seventh St, Murray Bridge
08 8539 1100  Download Flyer

Fri Nov 30, 2 - 4pm
City of Salisbury Council Office
12 James Street, Salisbury
08 8406 8312  Download Flyer

Tue Dec 4, 5.45 - 8pm
Lyceum Theatre, Wesley Conference Centre
220 Pitt Street, Sydney
02 9284 9608  Download Flyer

HREOC have established three female-focused themes for the tour:

* economic independence for women
* work and family balance across the life cycle, and
* freedom from discrimination, harassment and violence.

Discussion of other issues will also be welcome. Information collected from this consultation will be used to inform the agenda for the Commissioner's 5 year term.

We would urge anyone who cares about men's and boys' health and wellbeing to come along to these events to remind the new Commissioner that her responsibilities cover two sexes!
We would encourage you to make some of the following points (for a bit of background information on men and work-life balance click here):

    * Males have much higher illness, injury, accident and death rates and die 5 years earlier than females, yet research funding for male health is less than one-third of that for female health
    * Males suicide at almost four times the rate of females. More males kill themselves each year than the entire Australian road toll
    * More than twice as many males as females experience work-related injuries and illnesses, and over ninety percent of work-related deaths are males
    * Young men are three times as likely as young women to be victims of violence, however, there are no public health campaigns to address this very serious issue
    * Men are also victims of intimate partner abuse, however, there are no support services for these men, nor treatment services for abusive women
    * Boys in Australia are much more likely to drop out of school than girls. In NSW, the difference between boys' and girls' average Tertiary Entrance Rank is almost 20%. Males currently make up just 37% of university graduates
    * In Australia today, only women have reproductive rights. Upon becoming pregnant, a woman can choose to have the baby, or have an abortion, or put the baby up for adoption. A man has no choice whether to become a father or even to be notified that he has become a father
    * Men are more likely to be convicted and receive longer sentences for the same crimes, compared to their female counterparts
    * Following family court proceedings, children are far more likely to be given little or no time with their father than they are with their mother
    * The current inequitable parental leave schemes, favouring mothers, reinforce fathers in the traditional 'breadwinner' role rather than supporting them as being 'hands-on' dads (which all the research shows gives better outcomes for children and their parents)
    * Australian women are responsible for spending 90 cents in every household dollar
Please circulate this printable flyer to your contacts in or near Adelaide, and this flyer to your contacts in or near Sydney.
More information about how to contribute to the Listening Tour will be posted at www.humanrights.gov.au in coming weeks, along with details of other events as the HREOC team make their way around the country. Can't make it to the consultation?  An interactive website is currently being constructed which will allow online contributions.

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MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - WED 21ST NOVEMBER 2007

Do we ignore violence against men?

This Sunday is White Ribbon Day (WRD) and the start of the 16 Days of Activism to Stop Violence Against Women. However the 2005 Personal Safety Australia survey found that in the past 12 months almost twice as many men as women (808,300) were victims of all types of violence; twice as many men as women (485,400) were victims of physical assault; nearly a third of sexual assault victims were men; 864,300 men were harassed and 110,700 men were stalked. The same study found that men were almost as likely as women to experience physical violence within the home (half from females, half from males) and were just as likely as women to experience physical violence from perpetrators who were known to them. Yet the WRD campaign focuses solely on the prevention of violence against women by men.

An international coalition of professionals and academics has come out in unequivocal support of anti-violence initiatives, but is concerned that this annual spotlight on violence against women tends to conceal the fact that males are far more likely than females to be assaulted or killed and make up a significant proportion of victims of domestic violence. They are calling on the media to be aware that crime statistics, based on reports to police, are an inaccurate reflection of the extent of domestic violence within the community, as men who are physically assaulted by women are less likely to report it than are women assaulted by men. However, despite this underreporting, 29% of victims of notified domestic violence and 26% of intimate partner homicide victims are men - all of whom are absent in policy provisions. There is very little recognition of women's violence, yet more than a quarter of physical assaults on women are committed by other women. There is also little acknowledgment that violence is most prevalent amongst young people, and is causally linked to social disadvantage, drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues.

The White Ribbon Day campaign tells us that "violence against women is the product of learned attitudes and norms." University of Western Sydney academic Micheal Woods explains, "I think many people would disagree that Australian cultural norms support violence against women, but would readily admit that our culture accepts violence against males." He quotes a 2001 national survey of 5,000 young people aged 12-20, in which the authors noted that "males hitting females was seen, virtually by everyone, to be unacceptable, however, it appeared to be quite acceptable for a girl to hit a boy". They also found "there was no spontaneous recognition that verbal abuse or a female hitting her boyfriend could also constitute dating violence... however these were among the prevalent forms of violence occurring".

Researcher Greg Andresen from menshealthaustralia.net suggests "international large population-based research shows women initiate domestic violence as often as men, use weapons more than men, that men suffer one-third of injuries, and that self-defence explains only a small portion of domestic violence by either sex. We're concerned that male victims have been unfairly ignored in these anti-violence campaigns and this contributes to the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence. When male victims are ignored, their kids suffer long-term damage by the exposure and are themselves more likely to commit violence as adults."

The coalition of experts is asking Australians to set aside the next 16 days to consider all victims of violence, no matter what their gender, age, ethnicity or sexuality. They are seeking the involvement of the entire community, including government, NGOs, and men's and women's groups, in the establishment of a new national broad anti-violence campaign.
       
Media contacts:
Micheal Woods   m.woods@...      Mob: 0414 710 696      
Greg Andresen   media@...   Mob: 0403 813 925

This media release is an excerpt from a larger paper at menshealthaustralia.net/files/WRD07.pdf

International coalition of professionals and academics who are
signatories to this media release

PROFESSIONALS AND ACADEMICS:
1. David Adair, Post-graduate Criminology Student, University of Tasmania, TAS
2. Greg Andresen, Media Liaison, menshealthaustralia.net, NSW
3. Dr John Ashfield, Executive Member, South Australian Men's Health Alliance, SA
4. Luke Bain, Men's Health Coordinator, SA
5. Matilda Bawden, Manager, I CARE Human Service, SA
6. Steve Biddulph, Author, "Manhood" & "Raising Boys", TAS
7. Tony Bowring, Vice President, Tasmanian Men's Health & Wellbeing Assoc / Relationship Counsellor, TAS
8. Peter Campbell, Counsellor (Men's Issues & Health), ACT
9. Philip Chapman, Male House, NZ
10. Harry Crouch, Director, California Men's Centers & President, National Coalition of Free Men, USA
11. Keryn Eden, Clinical Nurse Specialist, SA
12. Joel Edson, Occupational Therapist, SA
13. Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D., Prof of Psychology, Florida International University, USA
14. Thomas Golden, Author, "Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing", USA
15. Phil Gouldson, President, Men's Health & Wellbeing Association, ACT
16. Jim Herbert, Men's Health Program Mgr, SA
17. David Hughes, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Men's Health, NSW
18. Kylie Innocente, CNWL Addictions Directorate, UK
19. Lindsay Jackel, Moderator, Nuance Exchange, VIC
20. Roger Kleinig, President, South Australian Men's Health Alliance, SA
21. Julian Krieg, Chairperson, Men's Advisory Network, WA
22. George Mason, Fathers-4-Justice-US, Families-4-Justice, USA
23. Tony Miller, Director/Founder, Dads In Distress Inc, NSW
24. Greg Millan, Men's Health Consultant, NSW
25. Sue Price, Director, Men's Rights Agency, QLD
26. Ian Purdie, Presenter, Dads on the Air, 2GLF FM, NSW
27. Rick Welsh, Aboriginal Men's Health Project Officer, AHMRC, NSW
28. Peter van de Voorde, Presenter & Researcher, Dads on the Air, 2GLF FM, NSW
29. Ian Wilson, National Coordinator, Australian Men's Party
30. Micheal Woods, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, NSW

The following ORGANISATIONS also support this media release:
31. California Men's Centers, USA
32. Dads in Distress Inc, Australia
33. Dads on the Air, Australia
34. Fathers4Equality Australia
35. The Freda Briggs Centre Inc, Australia
36. Men's Rights Agency, Australia
37. National Coalition of Free Men (NCFM), USA
38. RADAR - Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, USA
39. The Richard Hillman Foundation Inc, Australia
40. Shared Parenting Council of Australia
41. South Australian Men's Health Alliance
42. Washington Civil Rights Council, USA

The following concerned citizens have requested that their names be added to this media release:
43. Tony Burt, Business Owner, VIC
44. Stephen Caleo, SA
45. Ron de Mouilpied, QLD
46. Chris Dempsey, Manager, Coal Technology, Burton Coal, QLD  
47. Phillip Emery, Educational Consultant, NSW
48. Phil Ferrier, Data Comms Technician, TAS
49. Marco Giaroli, Architect, Aquatonic, QLD
50. Aaron Hope, Collections Consultant, Dun & Bradstreet, VIC
51. Jeremy Horton, Chief Technical Architect, AiE Technology Pty Ltd, NSW
52. Michael Lynch, NZ
53. Jose Madrid, Union Organiser, Finance Sector Union, NSW
54. Vincent Mateescu, Pennsylvania, USA
55. Mark McCosker, Senior Administration Officer, Education Department, QLD
56. Richard Millicer, VIC
57. Anne Morgan, QLD
58. Peter Morgan, QLD
59. Steven Morgan, QLD
60. Mark Muirhead, Director, Wordfit, NSW
61. Jim Murdoch, Teacher, Education Dept, QLD
62. Sian Murray, QLD
63. Geoff Ogden, School Teacher, WA
64. Gabriel Owen, Treasurer, Freda Briggs Centre, SA
65. Roy Price, NT
66. George Roth, VIC
67. Paul Smith, Programmer, Dept of Primary Industries and Water, TAS
68. Shaun Tiernan, National Software Helpdesk Team Leader, Leading Solutions, VIC
69. Robert Vanderkruk, Committee Member, Lone Fathers Association, SA
70. Peter Zazlan, QLD

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#25 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:39 am
Subject: $33Billion Class Action Lawsuit - "What Is Happening To Our Children?" 		percusso2002
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$33BILLION CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
a CALL TO THE AUSTRALIAN NATION
involving all little Aussie battler Mums, Dads, Grandparents, Children & Families...
 concerning our Right to Know
"WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN???"
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference!"
                  Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner & New York City Writer
EDWARD DABROWSKI, National Director of the Children's Rights Council of Australia, is standing as an Independent Senate Candidate in Western Australia.
YouTube Video Links:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7KtYC0Iy5V4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScW0medvmJk
 
Today Edward Dabrowski launched his 3-point plan for healing and justice rights for families and called on both the Government and the Opposition to hear the call of Aussie battler Mums, Dads, Grandparents, and Children & Families. "Our families want real practical help with their dignity left intact", said Mr Dabrowski. They want the corrupt juggernaut of official Government interference and dismantling of families, shut down once and for all time, their families left intact and their personal dignity restored", Mr Dabrowski said today. "We are moving ahead with the 'cleansing' of the State Apparatus used to irritate and dismantle families on a mass scale, and we have the support of tens of thousands of Aussies harmed by these systems and malpractice including profiteering of families through an active agenda in the Family Court and Divorce Industries to inflict pain and confusion and unbalanced custody outcomes. Children were being robbed of their life with a parent and headship in families was being removed, along with children's sense of themselves, their personal identity, and their development as complete persons. Today we are turning a corner in the restoration of the Australian Family", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
1. Calling for an "Emergency Intervention" to protect ALL of Australia's precious CHILDREN~PARENTS~FAMILIES from destruction
 
"I call on Mal Brough as the Australian Minister for Families, Communities & Indigenous Affairs to provide real community assistance and build capacity and resilience for families instead of his "tampa" stunt with the $500 Million Aboriginal Children "emergency intervention" where the money goes to army, police and the System feeding off the pain and suffering of people rather than self~help empowerment", said Mr Dabrowski.
"The abORIGINAL problems have 219 years of systematic bullyforce control, oppression and  suppression  to extinguish a unique people of 50,000 years heritage with a rich culture and DreamTime traditions of great human Value. The Government had failed to honour the Aboriginal culture and traditions, the worst manifestation being the wholesale removal of children and the recent wave of segregation of aboriginal children from their families instead of working with families at grassroots level to improve their lives and empower parents", he said.
 
2. Demanding an independent National Royal Commission (as per Sydney Daily Telegraph 14/11/07 full front page commitment) into the best interests, wellbeing and welfare of Australia's most valuable assets and hope for the future ~ Her CHILDREN~PARENTS~FAMILIES.
 
"I want to give everyday little Aussie battlers an opportunity to have an ongoing CommUNITY in diversity independent VOICE in matters that concern them and in the profoundly important personal matter of family and the sanctity of family life in the privacy of the sanctuary of the home", Mr Dabrowski said today.
 
Mr Dabrowski said today that both John Howard and Kevin Rudd in their campaigning "had arrogantly dismissed the input of everyday Aussies. These so-called leaders in their arrogance and ignorance have constructed with untold $millions from the Australian people carefully orchestrated spin doctor political campaigns that are completely out of touch with the hearts and souls of everyday Aussies. They are divisive, destructive and not in the best interests of Australia's Children~Parents~Families  and lack a productive CommUNITY Spirit of Goodwill."

 
"The media too were culpable accepting millions of dollars in advertising, as the media trance with the presidential style campaign left Aussies without a voice and campaign that speaks for them", save for the work of grassroots CommUNITY groups like ours", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
3. A $33BILLION CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
A report today that the use of painkillers was costing $34Billion per annum gives some hint to the extreme emotional pain and health costs to the community of ongoing destruction and meddling in families and children's bonds with their parents, by the family court and welfare systems.
 
"Today I am advising the Chief Justice of the Family Court Diana Bryant and the Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock as well as the Shadow Labor Minister that we are serious about ending crimes against the family in our beloved nation Australia.
 
At long last after 35 years the RECKONING ~ Accountability & Responsibility for crimes against families shall commence through legal action. I invite Geoffrey Robertson, renowned QC and UN Human Rights Court Judge, Sir Bob Geldolf along with Ralph Naider and other leaders in human rights social justice to support Aussie Families who had their families torn apart through collusion, anti-family ideologies and the blunt blade of the State child-removal apparatus", said Mr Dabrowski.
 
"Today we commence with TeamWork my plan to initiate a $33 Billion plus CLASS ACTION against the Australian Government and the total Family Law Court System (which includes DOCS, DCD, the Legal Profession, Churches, Social Workers, Police, so-called court'Experts' and other participants) for gross negligence in duty of care and absolute failure in due diligence causing untold damage, hurt, loss and death to Australian CHILDREN~PARENTS~FAMILIES over the past 35 years, commented Mr Dabrowski. "There has been a cover-up whitewash that does not fool the clever everyday Aussie. I will shine a light on the cover-up of abuse, cruelty, injustice, neglect and death. Fatherlessness alone costs Australia over $30 Billion annually in damages, hurt, loss and death. Every 2 minutes we have a report of Child abuse, cruelty, injustice, neglect and death. Australia's {hidden} SHAME!!!"
 
The terrorizing outcomes from this heartless flawed and failing Social System have been {hidden} in secrecy causing humongous family, financial, and health total breakdown with countless deaths and suicides (5 distressed dads a day) due to the Kangaroo Court Star Chamber (as eloquently described by Dr. John Hirst of La Trobe University in the Quarterly Essay). The roots of these gross injustices are traceable to the corrupt, disgraceful Family Law section 121 "gag" on freedom of speech allowing the secret 'Concentration Camp' torture and torment of everyday Aussies ruining them lifelong.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it all when declaring war on the Nazi atrocities ~ "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing!"
 
Will the Australian Press/Radio/TV Industry "RIGHT TO KNOW" Campaign take up these blatant "freedom of speech" and human rights violations???
                           ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
CommUNITY & Creativity-in-Action
 
There are no problems, ONLY creative, positive, constructive, people empowerment self-help SOLUTIONS.
 
We are planning an independent grassroots gathering, netweaving and galvanizing process over the next 228 days to the 11-13 July '08
 
    International CREATIVITY SUMMIT for Children Parents~Families
        {see the emerging web portal www.creativitysummit.com
                    a work-in-progress like us all }
 
             in the beautiful Newcastle Region of NSW Australia.
 
Our purpose is to bring together the natural freedom and joy of grassroots Aussie ingenuity, innovation and imagination wealth (= the DreamTime!) as the mischievous and playful Nobel Prize winning creativity thinker scientist Dr Albert Einstein said...
 
"IMAGINATION is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited
to all that we now know and understand, while IMAGINATION embraces the whole world and all there will be to know and understand."
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CHILDREN~PARENTS~FAMILIES
 see www.creativitysummit.com as work-in-progress like us all
 
EDWARD DABROWSKI, Independent Senate Candidate, Western Australia...
           
             ONE QUESTion within his MANifesto for the Federal Elections ~
                   
                 "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN???"

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EDWARD DABROWSKI
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Senior Engineer at BHP Billiton, Australia's biggest Company;
volunteer National Director, Children's Rights Council ~ www.crckids.org ~
and Shared Parenting Council of Australia ~ www.spca.org.au~
volunteer Development Director & CommUNITY Web Master on the
International CREATIVITY SUMMIT for Children~Parents~Families to be
held in the beautiful Newcastle Region 11-13 July 2008;
Custodian/Steward with his daughter Zosia 11 and son Josef 9 of the
Balingup Acres Seed Farm and the Children's Mother Earth Gardens Project;
volunteer co+CEO of the "Lady Liberty ground zero Creativity Center", New York City, USA.
Independent Senate Candidate, Bunbury, Western Australia.
 
Growing Nationwide Grassroots People Empowerment ~ a CommUNITY VOICE of Creativity
 ... "Aussie Independence & TeamWork" Campaign & Movement
 
Phone (08) 9791 7433; Mobile  0409 917 345
Emails ~ director@...
            ~ dads_n_kids@...
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#24 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
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Shadow Minister for Health Nicola Roxon today announced that a Labor Government would develop a National Men's Health Policy. For more information visit http://www.labor.com.au/media/1107/mshea050.php or read the media statement below.

This appears to be a very positive step forward. The Australasian Men's Health Forum calls on all political parties to develop men's health policy which:

- Insists that all providers draw up plans to involve men and boys
- Makes screening for men and boys' health problems part of regular practice
- Calls on health services to make demonstrable efforts to deliver male-friendly health services
- Respects the diversity of men and boys' health needs
- Provides funding for a National Men's Health study

Thanks to everyone who supported the Australasian Men's Health Forum's recent email campaign for a national men's health policy. If you haven't yet taken the time to let Tony Abbott and Nicola Roxon know you want a men's health policy then visit Men's Health Australia and follow the links www.menshealthaustralia.net

Prof. John Macdonald
President
Australasian Men's Health Forum

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Federal Labor Announces National Men's Health Policy

Media Statement - 5th November 2007

Shadow Minister for Health Nicola Roxon today announced that a Rudd Labor Government would develop a National Men's Health Policy.
Australia's first - and to date, only - National Women's Health Policy was launched under a previous Labor Government in 1989, but a National Men's Health Policy is needed to deal with issues affecting men's health.
Federal Labor acknowledges that too little attention has been given to men's health needs. Some health issues - like prostate cancer - affect only men while other health issues - such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and injuries - affect more men than women.
Australian men have a lower life expectancy and greater levels of serious morbidity than women. Many also tend to defer or ignore health issues - as reflected in lower use of health services.

To accompany its recent commitment to a new National Women's Health Policy, a Rudd Labor Government will also develop a national policy on men's health. This will be done in consultation with State and Territory governments, health service providers, consumer and advocacy groups and Australian men.

The policy will be particularly focused on reducing barriers that men experience in accessing health services, tackling widespread reticence amongst men to seek treatment, improving male-friendly health services and raising awareness of the range of preventable health problems that disproportionately affect men and which result in generally poorer health outcomes for Australian men.

Labor's National Men's Health Policy will also address specific groups of men who experience higher morbidity and mortality rates, including Indigenous men and men living in rural and remote communities.
A range of Federal Labor's recent health initiatives will particularly impact on men's health:

  • Labor's $600 million elective surgery plan will slash waiting lists for hip, knee, and hernia procedures.
  • Labor's $135 million National Cancer Plan includes $15 million to establish two dedicated Prostate Cancer Research Centres - the first in Australia. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in Australian men and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in men. The centres will develop improved diagnostic and screening tools as well as new treatments for prostate cancer.
  • A Rudd Labor Government will also invest $25 million over three years to screen all 50 year olds for bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in Australian men, after prostate cancer.
  • Labor's $220 million commitment to GP Super Clinics will bring health professionals - doctors, specialists, allied health - together in the one place, substantially improving the accessibility and convenience of health services for men and their families.

Labor's national policy on men's health will ensure that the planning and delivery of health services better meets the needs of Australian men.

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Subject: INVITATION to the OZ "9/11" NEWS EVENT ~ "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN???" 		percusso2002
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 from the HOST of the  "9/11" NEWS Event in Sydney for...

 

                        CHILDREN~PARENTS~FAMILIES

 

EDWARD DABROWSKI, Independent Senate Candidate, Western Australia...
          
             ONE QUESTion within his MANifesto for the Federal Elections ~
                  
                 "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR CHILDREN???"image001 193.gifimage002 79.gifimage003 25.gif


 
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EDWARD DABROWSKI

 

 Personal Bio:

Senior Engineer at BHP Billiton, Australia's biggest Company;
volunteer National Director, Children's Rights Council ~ www.crckids.org ~

and Shared Parenting Council of Australia ~ www.spca.org.au~

volunteer Development Director & CommUNITY Web Master on the

International CREATIVITY SUMMIT for Children~Parents~Families to be

held in the beautiful Newcastle Region 11-13 July 2008;
Custodian/Steward with his daughter Zosia 11 and son Josef 9 of the

Balingup Acres Seed Farm and the Children's Mother Earth Gardens Project;

volunteer co+CEO of the "Lady Liberty ground zero Creativity Center", New York City, USA.

Independent Senate Candidate, Bunbury, Western Australia.

 

Growing Nationwide Grassroots People Empowerment ~ a CommUNITY VOICE of Creativity

 ... "Aussie Independence & TeamWork" Campaign & Movement

 

Phone (08) 9791 7433; Mobile  0409 917 345

Emails ~ director@...

            ~ dads_n_kids@...

 

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Parenting shake-up expected

27.09.2007

The legal system is preparing for a rush of fathers seeking joint custody of their children when revised parenting laws come into effect next week.

The new parental law, which becomes valid on 1 October, is designed to give additional rights - and responsibilities - to both fathers and mothers.

While current, decade-old legislation requires parents to reach an agreement before joint custody is granted, the new law establishes co-parenting as the norm - even after a divorce.

Under the new rules, joint custody can only be repealed if serious concerns for a child's safety such as abuse come to light.

The law requires divorced parents to share a range of responsibilities ranging from taking the children to school to ensuring each other has information about school activities. Children themselves will also have more say under the legislation, as child welfare authorities will interview them about parental custody matters.

Experts are concerned, however, that the revisions could result in a flood of new law suits. Anja Cordes, chairman of the national organisation of lawyers dealing with custody cases, was a member of the committee that drew up the law's proposals.

She stated that although the political will was in place to establish co-parenting after a failed marriage, feuding parents might lack the ability to put their differences behind them for the good of the child.

'It will take time before parents learn to separate parenting with partnership and to stop seeking revenge through their child,' she told Berlingske Tidende newspaper.

She also predicted longer processing times for child welfare authorities in future cases, as parents who had lost custody cases in the past seek the chance to have their case retried.

Anette Hummelshøj, the head of Department of Family Affairs, admitted the new law could place an additional strain on the legal system.

'But our expectation is that when the courts have established a clear line for the legal area, a higher number of parents will be able to settle either inside or outside the courts.'
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#21 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
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A study into the effects of paternal estrangement

My name is Karen Finnegan and I am a qualified professional counsellor. I
am currently studying for my Masters of Applied Social Science with the
Australian College of Applied Psychology. I am specialising in men's issues.

I am currently researching what effects separated fathers experience in
being estranged from their children.

Were you formerly part of a family unit that included at least one child?

Are you divorced/separated or in the process of divorcing, or separated or
in the process of separating from a defacto relationship.

Are you isolated or estranged from your child/children?

If you answer yes to all three questions then I would like to invite you to
take part in the study. The information you provide will be anonymous, and
provides you with an opportunity to have your say.

The purpose of my study is:

To identify the problems men experience due to being estranged from their
child/children.

To gain knowledge of what form of help is out there for men experiencing
estrangement from their child/children.

To establish what is needed to provide a tailored counselling approach to
provide the appropriate support for men who are estranged from their
child/children.

The survey is short and will take you approximately 15 minutes to complete.
If you are interested please click on the link below.


Thank you for your time and participation.

Kind Regards

Karen Finnegan B.Couns; CMACA (CCP); MPCAWA

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PRESS RELEASE

A host of International speakers will join prominent Australian academics in presenting at the 7th National Men's Health Conference, to be held in Adelaide, 3-5 October, 2007.
International speakers include Dr Steve Robertson (Lancashire,UK) who will launch his book 'Understanding Men and Health: Masculinities, Identity and Wellbeing" at the conference. Dr Miles Groth (USA) ,Dr Gilles Tremblay (Quebec, Canada) and Assoc Prof John Oliffe (Vancouver, Canada) will join an International panel to discuss 'What's Happening Globally for Men's Health ' and an interactive panel 'Using Narratives and Stories in Men's Health'.
"'Men and Their Relationships' is a major theme of the conference", said Mr Chris Johnson, Vice President, Australasian Men's Health Forum (AMHF).
"Papers to be presented include: 'Fathers: Doing it for their kids!', 'The Fathers & Family Project' and 'New resource for dads and families - Hey Dad! For fathers who have a child with a disability'".
'Listening to and Honouring the Stories of Men' is another theme of the conference. Some papers to be presented include: 'What's all this Honouring Business' and 'The Rite Journey -Helping Develop Healthy Young Men'.
"There is something for everyone involved in men's health at this
conference, which is only held every two years" Chris Johnson said.
Health professionals, NGOs and individuals interested in men's health are urged to register as soon as possible. For conference information, see www.regocentre.com/nmh2007


For further information contact:
Mr Chris Johnson, Vice-President, AMHF
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Date: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:49 am
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Media release
2007 NATIONAL MEN AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIP FORUM
Building a sustainable program for fathers - what would it take?

Thanks to a decade of high quality research bridging neuroscience and child development, we are emerging from the social-construction straightjacket in our thinking and it is now possible to recognise biological differences between males and females, mothers and fathers.  In the area of fatherhood this is important because fathers are defined both by biological and by social factors.

If we want to have the best outcomes for our children we need to involve fathers. We can see the objectives clearly enough, fathers changing nappies, fathers reading to school children or talking about respectful relationships with their sons. What we have trouble seeing is the mechanism to make it happen. Services surrounding families have enormous influence on how mothers and fathers view their role. If we want the best for families, services have to change to be father-inclusive.

We have plenty of models of how this can happen and we are accumulating the evidence base for father-inclusive practice. What we need is a cultural shift to include fathers in every aspect of family support. This is a change on the same scale as Attorney General Ruddock suggests for separating families. There we are seeing a shift from fathers fighting mothers for custody to fathers and mothers being directed, facilitated and coerced into focusing on the best interests of the child. This is happening through legislative change but also through developing better practice, child-inclusive practice. We can aim for the same approach, the development of father-inclusive practice across the entire range of family services.

The forthcoming National Men and Family Relationship Forum on Tuesday 2 October in Adelaide will explore these developments and will include the insights of such noted speakers as Richard Fletcher from the Engaging Fathers Project at the University of Newcastle.

WHERE: The Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 2nd 2007

The forum will showcase the range of services that have developed across Australia and provide practitioners opportunities to network and explore new developments in programs.

The theme "Change is happening" examines the roles that men are providing in families today and how they have altered dramatically in recent years. Men are now active advocates for accessing supportive and relevant services that help themselves and their families.

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Media contact: Andrew King on 0412 404 577 or aking@...
 

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Date: Sat Sep 8, 2007 7:38 am
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2nd National Men's Shed Conference Manly NSW - 13th & 14th September 2007

http://www.mensshed.org/

Convenor's Invitation:

Welcome to the 2nd National Conference of Community Men's Sheds. After the unqualified success of the first National Community Men's Sheds Conference, held at Lake's Entrance in Victoria (Nov 2005) and hosted by the Orbost Men's Shed, it became evident that an extraordinary phenomenon is occurring - the Community Men's Sheds Movement is emerging! UnitingCare Ageing - Northern Sydney Region therefore takes great pleasure in hosting this Second National Conference through its flagship - the Community Men's Shed at Lane Cove. The Conference organisers have been active in supporting the set up of the Australian Men's Shed Association - AMSA.Together they are promoting the aims of the Association whose first election of officials will take place during the conference. Together with Lane Cove Council we invite participation by members and staff from Australia's 200 Men's Sheds.We also invite representatives from Government Departments, Health Care Providers and Aged Care Services interested in accessing the outstanding benefits of Men's Sheds. Active in providing health and well-being advantages to older men in our communities, Men's Sheds help to contain the potential problems encountered by the aged and isolated by offering congenial, happy and active meeting places for older men. Reflecting UnitingCare Ageing - Northern Sydney Region's participation in the broader social movement which seeks to improve life conditions for the isolated, depressed, marginalised and lonely, the Planning Committee hopes that the rich program of keynote speakers, papers, workshops, debate and conversation will stimulate, inspire, encourage and energise all participants to become further involved in this ground breaking, joyful and constructive innovation. Ivan Armstrong, Regional Director UnitingCare Ageing - Northern Sydney Region

Keynote Speaker:

Assoc Prof Barry Golding is a researcher in the School of Education at the University of Ballarat. Barry is interested in how Australian adults connect with learning in all its diverse, informal and community based forms.With Dr Mike Brown and Annette Foley he recently completed a major study of Men's Sheds for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research,which included mapping shed-based organisations in all states and visiting, surveying and interviewing participants in over 40 sheds. Barry & Mike presented at the 2005 Community Men's Sheds Conference.

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Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 6:32 am
Subject: The Good Oil on Men's Health - 48 		percusso2002
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The Good Oil 48
6 September 2007
 
Welcome to The Good Oil, the men's health e-newsletter from the Men's Health Information and Resource Centre (MHIRC) at the University of Western Sydney.
 
In this issue:
Åâ      Researching Refugee Men
Åâ      Freemasons Foundation Research Fellows
Åâ      The Marital and De facto Separation Study
Åâ      Men's Health - how to do it
Åâ      Conferences Update
 
With best wishes
 
Anthony Brown
Editor
 
 
 
Researching Refugee Men
 
Half of refugees and displaced persons in the world are men and boys.  Yet there comparatively little is known about the health needs of male refugees.
 
The latest newsletter from the Refugee Health Research Centre, at Latrobe University, highlights some of these health concerns.  The newsletter reports on the Refugee Health Research Centre's pilot study of refugee men and has other articles about the research implications of researching men and boys who are refugees.  The newsletter on refugee men can downloaded from HERE
 
More information on the Refugee Health Research Centre is available from the Refugee Health Research Centre's website
 
In 2006 the NSW Refugee Health Service released its report The Other 50%: Refugee Men's Health, by Dr. Mark Byrne.  The report is an excellent starting point for researchers and health professionals working with male refugees.  The report can be ordered from the NSW Refugee Health Service for A$15.  An order form for the report can be downloaded from RHS's website or by contacting the service on (02) 8778 0770 or by email: refugeehealth@...
 
 
Freemasons Foundation Research Fellows
 
The Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health, at the University of Adelaide, is seeking two research fellows. The Centre is a new initiative made possible through the generous support of the Masonic Foundation Inc. Initially, the Centre's research program will build on existing research strengths in aspects of men's health including longitudinal studies of men's health, male obesity, prostate cancer, male reproductive health, and masculinities and health. The Centre will also be seeking to continually extend its research program by recruiting new members and secure additional funds. The Freemasons Foundation Research Fellows will be expected to contribute to the development of this new Centre and to use this opportunity to achieve independence in research funding.
 
For more information on the Research Fellows visit the University of Adelaide's website
 
 
The Marital and De facto Separation Study

Marriage or De Facto separation can be extremely stressful and often causes significant emotional distress. It has also been reported that the separation process plays an important role in the development of suicidal behaviours. However little is known about what causes the most distress and at what point during the separation process. This information is crucial for the development of appropriate support for people who are going through separation.

The Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP), Griffith University is conducting a study which looks at the impact of separation on men's psychological health and development of suicidal behaviours. AISRAP is currently urgently recruiting people who are going through separation.  AISRAP is looking for men who have experienced a separation in the past 12 months.  Participation involves completing two 30 minutes questionnaires (one now and one in six-months time). An incentive is offered to participants.  To participate or for more information please contact Naoko Ide at AISRAP, Griffith University on (07) 3735 3338 or n.ide@...
 
 
Men's Health - How To Do It
 
The Centre for Men's Health at Leeds Metropolitan University, have produced a book for health professionals working with men.  Edited by David Conrad and Alan White, respectively Researcher, Centre for Men's Health and Professor of Men's Health, the book is a concise, easy to read guide, offering a no-nonsense, practical approach to the development and implementation of men's health programs.  The book is published by Radcliffe Publishing and more information can be found on Radcliffe's website 
 
 
Conferences Update
 
Have you registered yet for the 7th National Men's Health Conference, 3-5 October in Adelaide?
 
If you haven't, then don't miss out on what will be an informative and enjoyable time in beautiful Adelaide.
 
International speakers include Dr Steve Robertson (UK) who will launch his book 'Understanding Men and Health: Masculinities, Identity and Wellbeing" at the conference. He will join Dr Miles Groth (USA), Dr Gilles Tremblay (Canada) and Assoc Prof John Oliffe and prominent Australian academics in an international panel to discuss 'What's Happening Globally for Men's Health' and in an interactive panel: "Using Narratives and Stories in Men's Health'.
 
 'Men and Their Relationships' is a major theme of the conference. Papers to be presented include: 'Fathers: Doing it for their kids!', 'The Fathers & Family Project' and 'New resource for dads and families - Hey Dad! For fathers who have a child with a disability'
 
Visit the website: www.regocentre.com/nmh2007 to view the full program.
 
The following events are also being held in Adelaide in the first week of October.  More information on each event, including program and registration details can be found by clicking on the event name.
 
1 - 2 October, Adelaide, SA.
For more information visit the convention's website
 
 
2 October, Adelaide, SA.
For more information visit the forum's website
 
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia's National Men's Health Promotion Forum
6 October, Adelaide, SA
For more information call 1800 206 700 or email jfairbairn@...
 
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13 - 14 September, 2007 in Manly, NSW.
This exciting conference will showcase the Australian phenomena of community men's sheds.  Registrations are still available, visit the website to view the conference program and for registration details
 
21 - 23 September 2007, Vienna, Austria
This year, for the first time, the World Congress on Men's Health will be transmitted virtually on the Internet. Those of us not lucky enough to make it to Vienna will be able to follow and contribute to the issues online. More information, including registration and program details are available on the World Congress's website
 
 
Past editions of "The Good Oil" are on the MHIRC website. To download past editions click on the "news" button then follow the links to "The Good Oil".
 
 
Men's Health Information and Resource Centre
Hawkesbury Campus, Building P11
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA
 
Phone  (02)4570 1713
Fax      (02)4570 1522
e-mail   menshealth@...

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Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 6:35 am
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Please find the latest issue of emale at http://www.dadsontheair.net/shows/emale/EMALE_54_September_07.pdf

If you are interested in back copies of emale you can find them on the Men's Health Information & Resource Centre website at http://menshealth.uws.edu.au/news.html
emale is formatted as a PDF file, to view the document you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download this software for free from Adobe.

Contributions to emale, and information on men's health events, activities and resources for men are always welcome.
Regards, Greg Millan - Men's Health Consultant m 0417 772 390 e gmillan@... 
PO Box 953 HAMILTON NSW 2303

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#14 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 6:32 am
Subject: The Good Oil on Men's Health - 48A - Men's Health Events for Sydney readers! 		percusso2002
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The Good Oil 48A - special notice for Sydney readers
6 September 2007
 
Men's events for Sydney readers!!
 
We rarely send out two Good Oils in the same month, let along the same week, but today for the first time I'm sending two on the same day!
 
This newsletter highlights 3 very special men's health events taking place in Sydney during September.  If you'll be in Sydney during September I really encourage you to get along to at least one of these.
 
 
Anthony Brown
Editor
 
 
2nd National Community Men's Shed Conference
13 - 14 September
International College of Management (St Patrick's College), Manly.
 
Registrations are still open for this exciting conference which will showcase community men's sheds throughout Australia.
Registrations are still available but filling fast!  Visit the conference website to view the conference program and for registration details.
 
 
All About Boys
Thursday,13 September
The Warehouse,13 Reserve St, Penrith
 
The Warehouse Youth Health Centre, Family Planning NSW, has organised a one day conference on to invite you to attend this conference on boys health and wellbeing.
 
Speakers include:
 
Micheal Woods
Co-director, Men's Health Information and Resource Centre.
Anthony Gunn
Registered psychologist and published author specialising
in fear and phobias. Anthony will being talking about "What men fear most".
Michael Orchard
Senior HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Promotion Officer for
Sydney West Area Health Service. Michael will be speaking on the issues of HIV/AIDS and young men
Martin Silveira
Young Men's Sexual Health Promotion Officer at the Warehouse.
He will be giving an overview of young men's reproductive & sexual health at the Warehouse
 
The Warehouse's new Male Poster campaign will also be launched on the day.
 
1.30pm - 4.00pm, $30 including lunch.
 
To book and for more information contact Julie Garland julieg@...
 
 
Men's Health Promotion Forum
Sunday, 23 September
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour

The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia is hosting the Men's Health Promotion Forum for men and women of the general public and health professions.  A number of outstanding local and national men's health experts will be presenting at this important forum.
 
Cost $20 and free for partners. For more information, including program, and registration form visit the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia's website.
 
 
 
Past editions of "The Good Oil" are on the MHIRC website. To download past editions click on the "news" button then follow the links to "The Good Oil".
 
 
Men's Health Information and Resource Centre
Hawkesbury Campus, Building P11
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA
 
Phone  (02)4570 1713
Fax      (02)4570 1522
e-mail   menshealth@...

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Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 6:24 am
Subject: Dads in Distress - Newsletter #6/2007 		john.stapleton@...
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From: Tony Miller <tmiller@...>
Date: Sep 7, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: Dads in Distress - Newsletter #6/2007
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My apologies for the lateness in this newsletter as I have been away.
Breaking News; new dids groups opened in Alice Springs NT and Ipswich
QLD contact 1300 853437 for details

Dads in Distress Newsletter #6 / 2007

Earn Extra Money  with Online Surveys  and become a LIFESAVER!
Get registered and support us while making money for yourself! Dads in
Distress will receive donations for every registration made from our
website. Registrations and all Surveys are FREE!
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/shop_money.html

23 August 2007
The Australian
Agencies fire staff for spying
Dozens of government employees have been fired for breaching privacy
restrictions and browsing through confidential client files in a
crackdown on computer snoops.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news656.html

16 August 2007
ABC News
Lawyers warn family court waiting times set to blowout
Lawyers are warning that waiting times for matters to be heard at the
Family Court could blow out to almost two years unless the Federal
Government appoints a replacement judge.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news655.html

15 August 2007
ABC News
Qld and WA lagging behind in child support
Queensland and WA have the most parents failing to pay the correct
child support. (AAP: Alan Porritt)
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news654.html

13 August 2007
Herald Sun (Melbourne)
Third of dads lack contact
One third of separated fathers have little or no contact with their
kids. And almost a quarter of Australian children - more than a
million kids - have a natural parent who does not live with them, the
latest ABS family characteristics snapshot shows.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news653.html

07 August 2007
The Age
We're overweight, over-looked and over-indulged
We're more likely to be overweight, less likely to marry, and consume
more goods and services, according to a snapshot of Australian life,
released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news652.html

06 August 2007
Australian Government
CALL FOR ORGANISATIONS TO APPLY FOR FUNDING TO HELP FAMILIES
The Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Families,
Community Services and Indigenous Affairs today called for
applications from organisations interested in running one of the next
25 Family Relationship Centres or a range of other services under the
Family Relationship Services Program.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news651.html

24 July 2007
Dream Films
SALVOS' ONE MILLION DVDS FOR THE BUSH
The Salvation Army is producing a one-hour DVD that will celebrate
Australian country life. The organisation aims to generate one million
copies to be placed in rural and regional homes across the nation in
January 2008.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news650.html

23 July 2007
Herald Sun (Melbourne)
Stop putting down the dads
The Census included the latest figures on housework and they were not
fun reading for a man over his corn flakes. "Men's dirty little
secret," said one newspaper in announcing that men get it easy when it
comes to housework, with women doing twice as much as men. Similar
stories ran across the country as female journalists indulged in the
usual anti-male sneering.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news649.html

23 July 2007
Take 5 Magazine
DO YOUR KIDS THINK YOU'RE THE BEST DAD EVER?
Of course they do! And Take 5 wants to hear about inspiring dads all
over Australia.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news648.html

23 July 2007
Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP)
Griffith University
The Marital and De Facto Separation Study
The Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP),
Griffith University is conducting a study which looks at the impact of
separation on men's psychological health and development of suicidal
behaviours.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news647.html

21 July 2007
The Sunday Times
Participate in study
PerthNow and Sunday Times readers who have first-hand experience of
this issue are urged to participate in a pioneering study. Researchers
from The University of Sydney led by family law expert Professor
Patrick Parkinson are keen to talk to parents and children who have
been involved in relocation disputes whether or not the relocation
went ahead. The dispute must have been resolved - by litigation or
agreement - in the last six months.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news646.html

25 May 2007
Herald Sun (Melbourne)
Exposing the anti-male myth
When Erin Pizzey was a small girl she pleaded for help from a teacher,
blood running down her legs from a whipping her mother had given her.
Her plea was dismissed. No one would believe such violence was
possible in this rich, glamorous diplomat's family.
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news645.html

Tony Miller's Diary
New entries
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We lose 5 males every day through suicide in this country.....and we
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Buying pixels and advertising your business or showing others that you
care, even by just sending a positive message, can help us to continue
the lifesaving work that we do.
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Donations will gladly be received and appreciated.
Every $ you give goes towards saving lives, please if you can give
what you can.
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Join the Dads in Distress Forum
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For information please contact
Dads in Distress Inc.
Phone: 1300 853 437
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Website: http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au
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Dads in Distress Inc
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#11 From: Greg Andresen <spam@...>
Date: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:58 pm
Subject: Men & Fathers Historic Policy Document - First Release for Fathers Day and Beyond 		percusso2002
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Dear Friends in the Family/Fatherhood Movement,
We are excited to announce the release of the PDF version of our Men's and Father's Family Friendly Policy Forum Document for public release in the lead up to Fathers Day. The document is the collection of Men's/Fathers Policies that were presented by 33 delegates to Parliamentarians on a bipartisan basis on the 20th June 2007. It features common sense policy ideas and suggestions from many of the key leaders and researchers from the Men's, Fathers and Family movement across Australia. You will also find a copy of the 12 point plan at the back. Everything you need to make a point. It is now up to you to get this into the Hands of your Local Media outlets in your locality and around the nation. Make up your own Media Release. Feature your own ideas and draw attention to the particular parts of the policy document that you contributed to or that are close to your heart. Unity in diversity. Let's hit the Australian Media with a wave of Father related media releases in the lead up to fathers day. We suggest you start with your local Media as opportunities don't get any better than Fathers Day for issues surrounding men as Fathers.

Currently we at the Fatherhood Foundation are working on a National Strategic Summit on Marriage,Family and Fatherhood at Parliament House for Tuesday the 18th of September. If you are interested in coming please let us know as space is limited. It is our goal to release a Marriage Manifesto to the General Public which Neil and Jane Rookes have been working on for the last several months. Neil and Jane are the leaders of the National Marriage Coalition and contributed some great policy suggestions to the Men and Fathers Policy document. They are strong supporters of the need to keep dads involved in their Children's lives. The challenge before us is to develop a culture of marriage renewal and reverse the culture of divorce. Family relationships are important. Strong marriages are the foundation for strong families. The Marriage Manifesto is an important step in this direction. We hope that you can be a signatory to it.

Remember this is an exercise in giving honour and respect to our fellow workers within the movement, our friends in the media and even our parliamentarians. We do not all think alike nor should we. We all long to be treated with dignity as human beings. It is in giving that we receive. Make friends for the Fathers and Families movement in the lead up to fathers day as this is something that will take many years of hard work to bring the positive change we need for our society to become healthy again.

Keep up the great work as together we make a difference. The sum of the parts is always greater than the whole.

Kind Regards,
Warwick and Alison Marsh
Fatherhood Foundation
P.O. Box 542
Unanderra NSW 2526
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Ph: 02 4272 6677
Fax: 02 4272 6680
P.S. With thanks in particular to James Adams who did all the work behind the scenes to make this document possible along with all the wonderful contributors

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Date: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:35 pm
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Watch the Dads on the Air speech presented at the LFAA Conference in Parliament House, Canberra, 9 August 2007.

Dads on the Air at Lone Fathers Conference 2007 - Part 1 - 9:30

Dads on the Air at Lone Fathers Conference 2007 - Part 2 - 3:51

The text of the speech can be read at:

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Date: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:35 pm
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Second Families... First Class

An investigation of the nature and intensity of difficulties encountered by second families, how this impacts upon marital relationships and the factors that contribute to keeping second families intact.

STEPFAMILIES - HAVE YOUR SAY
Are you an adult in a second or subsequent relationship?
Do you have children or stepchildren that either live, visit or you do not have contact with?
If so, you are invited to participate in a completely confidential project examining the difficulties and strengths experienced by stepfamilies. It will take approximately 10-15 minutes to fill in an anonymous questionnaire. This is so easy you can do it over the phone, on email, or a hard copy can be posted to you. Your information will provide a valuable resource and will provide you with a voice regarding your unique family!
If you are interested, please download a flyer from http://www.dadsontheair.net/shows/Stepfamilies.pdf

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