I am watching ‘Eating media lunch’ right now because something has totally caught my attention. It is a new disorder and our TV’s will be showing commercials for it and the disorder will be named as one of the things the “Dancing with the Stars” will be using as a charity to give donations to […]
Archive of 2007
NZ in overseas media
This rises by association with the “Terror Raids” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6309791.stm By Heather Sharp in Hamilton, New Zealand And in the most recent national survey of victims of crime, 42% of Maori women said a partner had abused them physically, compared to only 20% of white women. and We’re in many ways still a settler society, and […]
Men’s Centre Annual General Meeting
Men’s Centre will be having its Annual General Meeting, to elect new Committee members, at my house: Wednesday 24th October 2007 34 Valley Road, Mount Eden, Auckland. phone 638-7275 Men’s Centre has been ticking along without much formal activity by the Committee, partly due to the main focus being trying to help people to cope […]
Children and Men’s Picnic
Paul Catton’s has invited MRAs (Men’s Refuge Arrangers?) (Men’s Rights Activists?) (Men’s Rights Advocates) and any other types of MRA, their children, their fathers and mothers, to a sumptuous lunchtime barbecue, on Saturday of Labour Weekend, at Western Springs, beside the zoo. Please give Paul (940-6236) or myself (638-7275 or 021-539-196) and let us know […]
Make the most of it
Sticking Plaster on Decapitation
Today, the Sunday Star in its article “Splintered Kids” wrote “…Desperate for help, Lucy’s parents approached Jill Goldson, an Auckland Family Court counsellor who was involving children in separation counselling for a research project funded by the Families Commission … On average, children attended two counselling sessions and Goldson says in every case, the intervention […]
Woman guilty of violent husband’s manslaughter
A Bay of Plenty woman has been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of the manslaughter, of her violent husband. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=124&objectid=10468196 ________ Interesting to see how it is reported. Obviously the self defence claim was not upheld, as she was found guilty of manslaughter – but it doesn’t really come across like that…
Feminist of N.O.W in action
Here’s an interesting article from someone appointed to the board of the “National Organization of Women”. Note the blatant bias and hypocrisy… The New York Times coverage led to the Today Show. During my years speaking from the feminist perspective, I was three times a guest on the Today Show. Once I began articulating men’s […]
The Tax Woman and the Csar
Recent changes to the Child Support Tax Act gave the Tax woman the legal mechanism to initiate an administrative reviews against parents. The Tax woman calls them Commissioner Initiated Administrative Reviews abbreviated to C.I.A.R (Pronounced Csar like the autocrat) . First you will receive a letter like this. Dear Mr XXXX, COMMISSIONER INITIATED ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW […]
Evidence Ambush in familycaught as a successful litigation strategy
I have heard 5 customers of the familycaught complain about evidence ambush in familycaught, when fresh evidence was introduced verbally at a hearing, without being previously introduced in affidavits (that were served on all parties prior to the hearing). I have given the name “evidence ambush”, as each of the people that complained used different […]
Any Submissions on the Family Courts Matters Bill
An alert reader has noticed that we should be publicising this important piece of upcoming legislation. Thanks for the heads-up Mike. Download the proposed Family Courts Matters Bill here. [1297 Kb pdf] Submissions to the Social Services Select Committee on this bill are due on 29th October. The Parliamentary debate at the introduction of this […]
In every New Zealand classroom.
Scoop Release The stark reality behind New Zealand’s family violence statistics has seen the emergence of a new profession – that of Child Victim Advocate practitioner. Child Advocates from around New Zealand will gather on 4 October 2007 for a Hui sponsored by the Family Safety Team (FST) initiative and supported by the Ministry of […]
Latest Air NZ Policy.
Let a women have her way regardless. The flight was already 15 minutes late leaving, dogged by continual relocation of passengers to accommodate lone children. There was frustration in the tone of the flight officer’s voice as he announced a delay due to documentation. At this point one attendant was moving two passengers from one […]
Latest DV response
The police shooting and killing of a man in Christchurch last night appears to be another tragic example of the DVA’s principles in action. The police were called to a domestic indicent and no doubt followed their current guidelines as demanded by feminist groups including Wimmin’s Refuge. They will have treated him immediately as a […]
11 Babies from 11 Different Fathers
An article on Campell Live on Tuesday night deserves comment. (Sorry, this video clip will only be available for a short time and I don’t currently have the skills to save the clip in a useable form). The clip is about a 21-year-old mother in Australia who advertised for sperm and impregnated herself from a […]
Families Commission Poll
Feminist Radio
State funded National Radio (actually, I appreciate it immensely much of the time) broadcast an interview this morning on “research” into youth violence by Presbyterian Support researcher Sue Milligan. You can hear it for the next week on Radio NZ’s website. The research was based on 34 case studies and interviews with 40 people who […]
Protection Orders
Intersting to see Henare and Brian Garder ‘snickering’ when the suggestion that women sometimes make things up to get protection orders is raised. This is ‘Eye to Eye’ from about three weeks ago http://tvnzondemand.co.nz/content/eye_to_eye/ondemand_video_skin?tab=ONDEMAND%20NCA&sb=date-descending&e=eye_to_eye_2007_ep22#ep_eye_to_eye_2007_ep22
WARNING to all men
I draw readers’ attention to our laws on unlawful sexual connection. Note particularly the section on consent, which seems to allow almost any situation to be defined as unlawful. If you are considering having sex with someone (I will assume for this posting it is a woman), keep in mind the following information.
Gender bias in sentencing
The following is an excerpt from the daily 3 news e-missive detailing lead stories to be seen on 6:00 pm news. Woman jailed after drug-fuelled sex with 14-year-old 27-year-old Nelson woman Kursty Anne Hunter has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for supplying a 14-year-old boy drugs and having sex with him. The boy’s […]
Gender Gap in Education – Abysmal.
How to vote.
Pumpkin
We don’t yet know all the details about the case of “Pumpkin”, the little Chinese girl whose father abandoned her in Melbourne on his way to the US. However, the case stands already as another dramatic failure of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) because a protection order was in place that failed to protect and […]
Beauty and the Beast Show
Southern Star Charitable Trust presents a “Kids In Show Seats” benefit in aid of The Burn Support Charitable Trust. Auckland Single Parent’s Trust has received a number of free tickets for this event which we have heard are worth $30.00 each to the general public. Date: 6th October 2007 Times: 10 am, 1 pm and […]