Quite frankly – I wouldn’t be bothered being an employer in New Zealand again.
Archive of April 2006
CYFS Access
I spent an unusual day yesterday with a friend having access to his little girl. His little girl has been in CYFS cusotdy for about 4 years. At the last Family Group Conference it was decided the care givers would become the custodians of this child and her sister. This was granted through the FC […]
Talk to feminists. Eh?
A hopeful week for dads
It’s felt like a hopeful week for dads and for the stolen generation of children. Dpex has been hard at work generating a campaign. And for the first time, I noticed the notion of equal parenting rights gaining a mention in the mainstream media, which made me feel good. This has been thanks to the […]
Pro Bono
And again, It seems to me we need to expand the regime on all fronts. More protests in person and many more protests by letter an email. However, protests gain attention but they don’t necessarily gain direct results. Protests can be seen as an energy-creating processes. More protests=more energy=more recognition. More recognition=greater attention. Greater attention=more […]
Show Time!!!
Fighting Fund
Data Collection
Moose has asked what I intend to do with the data I collect. Moose, at this stage, I’m damned if I know. But what I do know is; incontestable data has a nasty habit of biting the sanctimonious on the arse. If I can collect literally thousands of unimpeachable accounts of how the CYFSterhood, the […]
Tamihere Meeting
Unfatherly Conduct TV3 News
The promo for the TV3 News story “unfatherly conduct”, screened last night reads: The fight for fathers to have equal parenting rights has moved too close to home for some family lawyers. A group of disgruntled fathers have taken to picketing outside the lawyer’s homes. But the Law Society says their actions amount to intimidation, […]
Email to Holmes
Hi, As mentioned, Simon Moore….as did Jim… failed to mention two significant injustices occurring in the Family Court. The first is, the Family Court operates completely outside any standards of proof as is required in any other Court. Secondly, the Lawyers For Child, although they are ‘supposed’ to be representing the interests of, and the […]
Boshiers Family Court.
Wanted
I want/need ‘your’ story. Please remember I am interested ONLY in dissertations filled with fact, devoid of emotion and ad hominems. Read Julie’s story again. I say again. It’s raw power is in its lack of emotional pyrotechnics. If we are to start making a difference we have to go at the ‘system’ with fact, […]
Law Changes
No Time Like The Present
Statute of Limitations
TV3 News ran a story on 2nd April about the need for a statute of limitations. They interviewed Dr Felicity Goodyear-Smith (wife of MENZ Admin JohnP) Photo: Felicity being interviewed on TV 3 news. The call is endorsed by the doctor who launched a support group for men who claimed they had been wrongly accused […]
A Woman’s story
RE: Julie’s Post
Families Commission
Good heavens. That was a quick rersponse from the karmic system…or whatever you prefer to name coincidence. From today’s Herald. Have a look at www.thecouch.org.nz. Already we have a fresh opportunity to become movers and shakers. It seems to me that not only can we join in with the information collection system, but we can […]
We Need A Champion
The adage, ‘The squeaky wheel gets the most grease,’ is, perhaps, an injuction we should all start to press with some vigour. It follows the CYFSterhood have their extraordinary power because they chased it and had sundry pieces of legislation passed into law becase they just kept squeaking. Word, by line, by law, they got […]