Men didn’t vote enough for a political party that would have spoken up against this bill in it’s first reading. But what does that mean?
2 things.
1. Political parties pro men have 3 years to get more men’s support for the next election.
2. The world has not ended yet. There is still work that can be done without political parties being pro men already. Other groups are playing the game too. Some had a better chance with labour but have not given up their goals because they didn’t get the political party they wanted in.
They lobby each politician in parliament today and put a tick against their name if they are in. They then go to work on the others who they do not have support from.
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These are the details to the bill.
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Truck flips onto walking woman
Responsible party-goer killed by car
Police name 20-year-old hit by car in Gore
These are actual links to headlines I saw on the Stuff site today. Note that the one headline about a woman being harmed specifies her gender. The two headlines about men being harmed – killed actually – don’t bother to mention they are men. This is a widespread media tendency.
Why does it happen I wonder? I claim that it results from, and amounts to, subtle undervaluing of men’s lives and welfare compared to that for women. Any alternative explanations?
The exodus of migrants to Australia hit a record in the past year, while tourist numbers from north Asia are slumping badly because of the global economic slowdown.
In the past 12 months, 35,300 or almost 100 people a day have left for Australia. That is the biggest flood on record and higher than the previous peaks after the 1987 sharemarket crash or in the late 1970s.
Click on link above for full story.
The article doesn’t say so but you’ll find that most people leaving are males and married families.
The reasons are far more than economic. In fact people with poor job security are more likely to stay where they are since they can rely on help from the state and from family. Immigrating is always a bold move that carries some risks.
The reasons record numbers of people – dominated by skilled males – are leaving New Zealand are a statement about New Zealand society. IMHO.
A Sydney woman is in hospital after being shot by police when she attacked officers with a knife.
Police were called to an address on Iron St in North Parramatta at about 1.30am today with reports that the 48-year-old woman was threatening a man with a knife.
When they arrived, the officers were themselves threatened by the woman. (more…)
Click here for original source.
Ashley Skinner, seven, hasn’t been seen for four years by his father Michael Turberville.
He is believed to have been taken to Australia last year by his mother Joanne Skinner, a trade union worker.
The President of the High Court’s Family Division has taken the unusual step of lifting the reporting restrictions that apply in children’s cases in the hope that publicity will help trace the boy.
Sir Mark Potter said: “This is a boy who has been snatched by his mother during court proceedings intended to decide how much contact he should have with his father. (more…)
You must be the judge, to protect your children:
Boy’s abductors avoid jail terms
December 18, 2008, 12:43 pm
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5221600/boys-abductors-avoid-jail-terms/
A father and daughter who admitted abducting the woman’s young son in Hamilton in 2006 have been sentenced to home detention.
Dick Halton Headley, 70, and Kay Halton Skelton, 38, pleaded guilty in the High Court at Hamilton in October to a single charge of abducting Skelton’s six-year-old son. (more…)
A 33-year-old mother was charged with having sex with a minor three weeks after she found out she was pregnant to the boy, a court was told.
The woman was remanded on bail till February 13 for trial in the Timaru District Court after depositions before justices of the peace yesterday.
The woman uttered one word yesterday “No” when asked whether she wished to plead guilty to a charge of sexual connection with the boy, then aged 15, between July and September this year. (more…)
A Dunedin mother of five who killed her 22-month-old daughter earlier this year escaped a custodial sentence today.
The 27-year-old, who has permanent name suppression, admitted infanticide after an initial charge of murder was dropped.
She hit and smothered the girl for crying incessantly, leading to her choking to death on regurgitated food.
In Dunedin High Court today, Justice Graham Panckhurst said the woman could not be held fully responsible as she was severely depressed at the time of the attack.
He sentenced her to two years’ intensive supervision and 100 hours of community work.
If you are visiting from overseas and don’t know of this case; here is a link to pick it up.
Back to today….
Once again the Government is asked for an inquiry to this case after three terms of left wing. Today we have the National Party in leadership. They certainly weren’t put there for John Key’s lack of experience.
Peter Ellis talking of the vested interests of officials in the Ministry of Justice: “I have high hopes that [Mr Power] will have the moral courage and political will to certainly listen to the advice of the [Justice] ministry, but to remember that if the ministry consists of the same career bureaucrats that have been in charge of [the case] for the last 17 years … that they have a vested interest to leave it as the status quo.”
Peter Ellis has always stated his innocence and after he had served his 10 year sentence he stayed in prison where he has now served 15 years because he cannot get parole unless he states he is guilty. And he won’t. They say, “Anyone with half a brain can see this man is innocent.” I am of the opinion it is not the brain that the left lacks. It is something else ….
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1. UNICEF: Daycare is “A high-stakes gamble with today’s children and tomorrow’s world”
Evening Standard (UK) 11 Dec 08
The drive to push mothers back to work is leaving children at risk of long-term emotional damage, Unicef warned today. A detailed study of childcare policies found that leaving under-threes in all-day nurseries made them more likely to be aggressive, disobedient and lonely. The Unicef report, which draws on extensive scientific and psychological data, recommends that all children should, where possible, be cared for by parents at home during the first 12 months of life. READ MORE
READ Full report http://www.unicef.org.nz/page/241/InnocentiReportCard8.html
READ “Extended Childcare No Miracle for Children” by Bob McCoskrie http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10462594&pnum=0
NZ childcare use near top of Unicef list
The Press 12 December 2008
Tens of thousands of Kiwi toddlers are being booked into childcare at world-leading rates and our world-lagging rates of paid parental leave are taking some of the blame. A new report by Unicef rates New Zealand 23rd out of 25 countries for effective paid parental leave. Kiwi parents get 14 weeks paid parental leave. The average in the rest of the developed world is approaching one year. The Unicef report also shows the childcare rates for the nation’s under-fives are among the highest in the world. READ MORE
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The National Party has gone crazy putting through laws lately without anyone’s say. But… we have a chance now.
National is expected to pull back on the number of bills it will push through under urgency as it starts its second week in government.
Legislation giving police the power to issue on-the-spot protection orders for victims of domestic violence would be given a first reading then be sent to select committee this week. (more…)
Thanx to Counter feminist for putting this together with help from Italy and also Factory for putting it it up on his site. This is teamwork after all. Sooooo, what do you think? Is it good enough for New Zealand? Is it relevant?
PRINCIPLES AND GOALS: UOMINI 3000 – MENS MOVEMENT (Translated from the Italian by R. Randazzo)
Uomini3000 is a movement of opinion characterised by the following principles and objectives:
– PRINCIPLES Uomini3000 recognises and affirms:
1. The existence of natural differences between the genders.
2. The extreme immorality of certain social forces, and at the same time, the very real opportunity that these forces have to deny, ignore, compromise, and repress these differences and any expression of them.
3. The necessity of cooperation between the genders, and at the same time the inevitability of opposition between them.
4. The scientific inconsistency and dubious morality of any claim by one gender to describe the state, condition, needs, experiences, or the value of the other gender.
– THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS
Uomini3000 defines the current situation in the following terms:
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There was a time when I believed that justice may be blind but surely it is not dumb. I figured (naively) that students actually studied the law and that all people were protected under it. In a funny way it was like a security blanket and I got on with life believing that the law had my interests at heart and that of my family and friends.
I guess, the child within me wants to continue to believe this … but as I get smacked around the head with reality from time to time, I find myself in disgust of the world I live in.
How can it be that lobby groups have more control of the way the world works than ordinary working class people? How can lobby groups have more power than politicians or judges? (more…)
A recent article on National Radio Morning Report (5 December 2008) showed again the subtle ways that feminist mythology is constantly promoted. The article reported that violence had now overtaken all other causes (such as road and work accidents) for facial injuries requiring surgery or reconstruction. The medical specialists referred to the numerous “people” who came in to hospital with such injuries, especially on Friday and Saturday nights after drunken violence. It was emphasized that the violence “mainly involves men”. One medical specialist was reported to say “the behaviour of men must change”. Another talked about “all these drunks who have beaten themselves up” using up the hospital resources. One particular case was mentioned of a man who had been injured. However, the article did not say anything about the gender ratio of victims. Various types of injuries and situations were described (e.g. pub fights, broken cheekbones) but all without reference to gender, except for the situation of “women being brought in by Women’s Refuge because their boyfriends had beaten them up”. The article then played an excerpt from “Once Were Warriors” with a man menacing a woman. The article then quoted the Ministry of Social Development’s claim that “its campaign against family violence will help”.
So what’s the problem with this article? (more…)
I have previously warned that anti-terror legislation now allows the NZ government to spy on and to repress political movements it doesn’t like. The Clark government was happy for people to think the so-called “Tuhoi raids” were about Maori activists, because this obscured the fact that the legislation allowing those raids removed every citizen’s rights big time and allowed police and security services almost unlimited power to spy on anyone they wish to and to terrorize them with military uniforms and weapons. More pakeha than Maori were targetted in the operation that included the Tuhoi raids. Today’s Sunday Star Times article stands as a warning to us all, both about potential spies in any political movement that the government might feel uncomfortable about, and about the importance of moderating our comments and avoiding threats of violence or subversion.
Hi Guys,
Happy Christmas and a huge thanks for your support of Father and Child this year!
We have established our Auckland team, launched the new magazines, had many dads and agencies connect with us, plus attended our first Parent and Child show.
Our support for dads is now local, phone or in person and early next year we will be available from a small office at the Onehunga Community Centre. (more…)
THE absence of fathers is the biggest family and social problem in our society, according to Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey.
Delivering his pre-Christmas message on Friday, Archbishop Hickey said the absence of dads was a bigger problem than drugs.
“If Father Christmas was offering me gifts, I would ask for peace in every family and a father at the heart of every family,” he said.
“The absence of fathers is the biggest family and social problem we face today. It is the biggest cause of lifelong difficulties for fathers, mothers and, most of all, for children.
“The absence of fathers is bigger than anger, aggression, alcohol, drugs, crime and under-achievement by children because it is the biggest single contributor to all of them.
Bill Cosby speaks to legislature’s Task Force on Fatherlessness
“I believe the reason I’m here is to get these fine servants of the public to feel and understand the pain that goes with the sadness when one is abandoned.”
In 2006, more than a fifth of Connecticut households with children under 18 were headed by a single mother.
Yale Child Psychologist Kyle Pruitt says the state has already laid some groundwork to improve those statistics. There are child support debt forgiveness programs and parenting education for prison inmates. What’s needed now, Pruitt says, is a cultural shift within state agencies to change the focus from children’s mothers to a sustained concentration on both parents’ involvement.
Rather than being simply apathetic towards fathers, the Families Commision has become hostile towards fathers.
“The Families Commission has accepted the political reality of having a new minister and scrapped plans for a $200,000 conference.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett discovered plans for the conference in a briefing paper, released publicly yesterday.
She got in contact with the commission to say it was inappropriate in tough economic times and encouraged it to reconsider.
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The conference was to be held in Auckland in February bringing together 150 “leaders and decision makers”.
Among attendees expected were The Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier, public sector chief executives, sector and business groups and unions.
The Families Commission was a United Future Party initiative.”
As far as I know not a single father’s group was invited.
By Philippe Siuberski in Nivelles, Belgium
December 09, 2008 11:05am
A WOMAN lured her five children upstairs one by one and slit their throats before trying to kill herself, a court has been told.
Belgian woman Genevieve Lhermitte, 42, is on trial for the murders of her four daughters and son, aged from three to 14. (more…)
Last night I attended a presentation at Men’s Centre North Shore by PHD student Anne Hayden. She came to public prominence recently by taking the Herceptin petition to Parliament.
The meeting was attended by 19 men and 2 woman. Although passions ran high at times, the discussion which followed was ably chaired by Jim Bagnal.
Anne’s past experience as a Victim Support worker was that in many relationships it really is a case of “it takes 2 to tango”. Talking about the Mutuality of Violence publicly made her unpopular with feminists, for whom this concept is heresy of the highest order. Anne told us she has been permanently removed from at least one friend’s Christmas card list! (more…)
