There’s an article in the NZHerald about killer Gay Oakes finding a new love and planning to marry. She was convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment after lacing her de facto partner Doug Gardner’s coffee with sleeping pills and burying his body in the back yard of their home in Sydenham, […]
Archive of June 2010
Should the men’s movement rethink?
The past few months would have to be the worst period of the online men’s movement I’ve seen. It’s not unusual for inside fighting also known as inside politics to occur, and sometimes it’s worth laughing about while other times it gets real messy and pain is inflicted. It’s easy enough to do when men […]
Child Support Formula fundementally flawed
SEPARATED parents owe their ex-partners more than $1 billion in child support payments, the Auditor-General reported yesterday. The Australian National Audit Office investigation into child support reform found that half of separated parents are failing to pay all, or any, of their child support liabilities. The audit report, tabled in parliament yesterday, criticises the Child […]
Nutrition Study Volunteers Wanted
Milk fractions to treat metabolic syndrome The University of Auckland Human Nutrition Unit is inviting overweight male volunteers to take part in a dietary study. What is the aim of the study? The aims of this study are to determine whether two novel fractions from cow’s milk can treat symptoms of the metabolic syndrome in […]
Menz shed movement reaches Kapiti
I have just been advised that MenzShed is getting set up in Kapiti. It has achieved registration as an incorporated society this past week so it can now raise funds for this charitable purpose. The first meeting to formalise the group of people to operate the place will be 3.00 pm tomorrow Tuesday 22 June […]
the {invisible} men
Car bonnet murder case appeal backed
Help for violent women
Wed 26 May 2010 (ODT Online) Family violence is not just a man’s domain and more women are seeking help for their abusive tendencies. Stopping Violence Dunedin (SVD) manager Lynne Baird said the organisation received at least one phone call a week from women wanting to do something about their violent tendencies. Feedback from probation […]
Can someone explain this?
A Nelson businessman who secretly recorded his wife, who was having an affair, says it is unfair that he has been portrayed as a sexual deviant, but has admitted the charges against him so he can “get on with life”. Pat, 53, pleaded guilty in the Whakatane District Court to four charges of publishing an […]
I wont let your son see you and I’ll have a $3.3m chalet with that:
In the most recent hearing of the matter, before judge Christine Dawe in Adelaide, the wife made her claim for $278,000 a month in spousal support backdated to 2005. She also wanted a $24m property settlement, including a $3.3m chalet in Switzerland, and $1.2m a year to pay for four full-time carers (her family members) […]
Men are wallets
Men are viewed as wallets. Before marriage, during marriage and after marriage. Governments see themselves as substitute men-wallets. This is illustrated by a new initiative exclusively for unemployed single women. I think many men would be OK with this provided there was some reciprocal commitment. However that is not the reality. Men need to ask […]
Cheap simple paternity tests are available from Australia.
Cheap simple DNA tests are available from Australia. Use them. The NZ Family court desperately wants you to pay child support to the mother, whether you are the father or not. One trick they use is to refuse to accept the results from DNA test results from Australia. However once you are armed with this […]
Man sets himself alight in Brisbane
A MAN set himself on fire outside of Brisbane’s Supreme Court complex after an unfavourable family court decision, according to witnesses at the scene. It sounds like he sat down for a while and thought about it quietly. Then he set himself alight. 90 percent of his body was burned. He was taken to hospital […]
What about equality in retirement?
If feminism is about equality then why don’t feminists ever talk about retirement issues? For example males in NZ used to have a life expectancy 7 years less than women until very recently. The gap is now down to 4 or 5 years. Even so this is significantly less. In addition males in retirement tend […]
Court uses Facebook to serve paternity test order
In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute. Sydney Morning Herald: Court uses Facebook to serve paternity test order Interesting! Regards Scrap