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Inquiry Submission Deadline This Friday
The closing date for submissions to the Federal Government inquiry into family law, child support and joint custody is this Friday. We urge all our listeners to make a submission to this inquiry. The inquiry is due to complete its report by 31 December. There will be further public hearings on the issues, where the committee is expected to travel the country gathering evidence, but this will most likely be by invitation only.
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Mon. 12 April 2004
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Chaos at the Crossroads (First Draft)
We have uploaded the first draft of Chaos at the Crossroads our book discussing the outcome of the recent government inquiry into child custody. To read it click here. You will require Acrobat Reader to view it. We will build upon it in the weeks to come. |
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Mon. 19 June 2006
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Our Stolen Children
Special Guest: Peter van de Voorde from Justis Records
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Peter van de Voorde has produced this excellent album Our Stolen Children, speaking to the heart of many father's experiences in this country at the hands of government agencies. Intelligent, entertaining, a gifted performer with a wealth of experience behind him as well as being a talented songwriter, since doing this interview Peter has become a regular participant with Dads On The Air and we are delighted to have him on board. More on Our Stolen Children can be found at www.justisrecords.com.au
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Mon. 12 June 2006
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Family Law Reform
Special Guest: Attorney General Philip Ruddock
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Due to a misunderstanding over times the Attorney General Philip Ruddock, who has appeared on Dads On The Air on several occasions, only comes on the show in the last 15 minutes or so of the program. We had expected him at the beginning of the program. Hence much of the show is taken up with our reading out the government's fact sheets on new family law changes and then the Dads On The Air team putting in their two bobs worth.
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Mon. 05 June 2006
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Can class actions be successful?
Special Guests: Class action expert Maurie Stack, former head of the NSW Law Society and Mark Whittaker from Family Advantage.
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Many fathers brutalised or disillusioned by the Family Court's processes and arbitrary decisions by the Child Support Agency find themselves embarking on complex and often futile legal adventures in an attempt to either gain some fairness for themselves or some protection for their children. Many others dream of mounting or organising class actions against a system they see as entirely stacked against them.
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Mon. 15 May 2006
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Are the new Relationship Centres Necessary?
Special Guest: Arti Sharma from the Centre for Independent Studies
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Researcher Arti Sharma asks if the new relationship centres are necessary or whether the Australian government's solution to family law problems, the establishment of Relationship Centres around the country at a cost of hundreds of millions of dolars, will duplicate or even compound many of the present problems . Fathers have many concerns about the new centres as the first stop call for separating couples centre on their potential to be just as biased and as frustrating as the present system. In a new paper Sharma writes: "The Australian government is proposing a substantial package of reforms to the family law system. It hopes to bring about a substantial shift in the way relationship breakdowns are viewed and dealt with, particularly in cases where children are involved. Significantly, there is a push to reduce separating couples' reliance on lawyers.
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Mon. 08 May 2006
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The Death of 50/50, The Death of Reason?
Special Guest: Senator Steve Fielding
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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The Howard government, idiotically and dishonestly, rejected the hugely popular idea of rebuttable joint custody or shared parenting as the starting point for separating couples; instead whitewashing the troubled family law industry and the hated Child Support Agency with the incompetent bureaucrat written reports Every Picture Tells A Story and the The Best interests of Children respectively. One of the only politicians in the country to behave with any true integrity in the long running debate over family law and child support reform has been Senator Steve Fielding of the Family First Party.
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Mon. 01 May 2006
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The Glenn Sacks Interview
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Don't miss this fascinating interview with one of the world's leading commentators on gender issues. Glenn Sacks is well known for his US program His Side and his widely syndicated columns - finally someone who has had the guts to unabashedly put the male point of view and point out the many inequities facing men in today's world.
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Mon. 24 April 2006
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Dads4Dads
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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The failure to take father's seriously can begin very early - at the time of the child's birth. Along with our normal variegated coverage of gender, family and fatherhood issues we take a look at a new program, dads4dads, in the Sydney Hospital system, which tries to strengthen the role of fathers within families and communities.
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Mon. 17 April 2006
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Non-Custodial Mothers
Special Guest: Tanya Bollin, spokeswoman for the National Association of Non-Custodial Moms
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Anyone who thinks that fathers and their children are the only ones that suffer under the present sole-custody model adopted by family courts as supposedly being in the best interests of children should listen to this fascinating and moving interview. There are now an estimated three million non-custodial mothers in America and they are becoming an increasingly strong voice in the widespread demands for change.
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Mon. 10 April 2006
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Why Shared Parenting Should Be Implemented
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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"The general public often does not know that gender bias against fathers is alive and well in family court. "Hey, it can't happen to me - that stuff is way outdated," is the common refrain. Nothing could be further from the truth..." writes Rinaldo Del Gallo, III Esq. in his article "Why Shared Parenting Should Be Implemented". Without a special guest this week Mike and Ian keep us up to date with the latest writing on gender and family issues.
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Mon. 03 April 2006
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Second Families and the Child Support Agency
Special Guest: University Researcher Natalie Gately.
Also in the studio: John Flanagan from Fairness in Child Support and James Adams from Fathers4 Equality
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Second families have always been a powerful voice in the debate over the personal and social consequences of the Child Support Agency.
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Mon. 27 March 2006
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Two Steps Forward One Step Back
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Two Steps Froward One Step Back has been the general response to the government's claims its recently passed shared responsibility family law bill represents the most significant reforms in 30 years. The mooted reaction from mainstream and alternative media and the sceptical response from a number of family law reform advocates shows how far the debate has travelled and how underwhelming or confused is the outcome.
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Mon. 20 March 2006
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Dad's Landing Pad
Special Guests: Ray Thompson founder Dad's Landing Pad Ed Debrowski from the Shared Parenting Council and James Adams from Fathers4Equality
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Dad's Landing Pad was founded in early 1998 in the northern suburbs of Perth. It has shifted emphasis from being a social group to specifically helping mostly fathers, but grandparents and second families as well, with family court and child support issues. They have also been active in Hague convention abduction cases; being involved in preparing paper work for the Attorney General's Department. Their five involvements have all been successful. They have a 24 hour contact phone number for people in crisis: 089 4033 217. While ever family law remains unreformed, as we discuss with our other guests, there will be a need for groups like Dad's Landing Pad.
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Mon. 13 March 2006
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The Daddy's Split Guide
Special Guests: Author Ian Purdie
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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There's a genre of men's literature developing with everything from the angst and anger of separation to practical guides to the many problems life throws up. Ian Purdie's The Daddy's Split Guide is a bit of both; not always the most politically correct tract you'll ever read; but it has its moments; enormously entertaining, angry and occasionally wise.
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Mon. 06 March 2006
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Fairness in Child Support
Special Guests: John Flanagan
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With our guest John Flanagan from the group Fairness in Child Support we look at the government's recent moves to reform child support. Many fathers are sceptical, some positive; with views ranging from the changes being a long overdue reform and a move in the right direction, to others who view them as a cruel revamping of a dreadful and maladministered system.
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Mon. 27 February 2006
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Heretics
Special Guests: Tim Anderson, Editor, Heritic Press
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Daring to discuss unfashionable ideas is all an essential part of being a heretic and here we have it in spades. Tim studied a little psychology and politics at Melbourne University and has been involved in educational publishing since 1986.
He started hereticpress.com after being retrenched in a publishing company merger. Tim had always been concerned about religious factions all claiming they and they alone, had some special relationship with a GOD.
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Mon. 20 February 2006
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Getting On With Others
Special Guests: Nicola Roxon, Shaddow Attorney General and John Cooper, Author of Getting On With Others
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Many men and women who were natural Labor voters who have been through the Labor creations of the Family Court and the Child Support Agency will never vote Labor again. But after a decade in power the Liberals have been excruciatingly slow and utterly two-faced in their supposed reform of these two bodies. We talk with the Shadow Attorney General Nicola Roxon on her push to highlight family violence in the new family law amendments and her party's general support for the reforms which, at least as far as the political rhetoric is concerned, aims to encourage both parents in their children's lives. Here at DOTA we are entirely sceptical of the government's changes to child support and family law legislation and concerned that the promotion of public hysteria over domestic violence in an arena as ideologically charged and dysunctional as family law is a mistake; but hope we're proved wrong. Later in the show we talk with author John Cooper of the new book on helping your children to socialise.
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Thu. 16 February 2006
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Our New Look & MP3 Downloads
The most noticeable change you have already seen is that for the first time since we started in 2002 we have dropped the light grey background from our homepage. We have also adjusted the fonts on the main page to be easier to read.
This is just a start to a series of changes that you see over the next few months. For the moment the forum will still have the traditional grey look but this will change to the new style.
The other big change from today is that we are starting to trial MP3 downloads of the program. These are high quality downloadable version of the program. We will also be looking to set this up as a Podcast in the coming weeks.
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Mon. 13 February 2006
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All that Jazz
Audio Webcast: Windows Media | Real Media
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Most of the Dads On The Air team were away this week but Mike and Trish soldiered on. Here's what they had to say about child support, domestic violence, gender issues and all that jazz. Below is some of their source material.
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Mon. 06 February 2006
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Parenting for Character
Special Guests: Author of Parenting for Character Andrew Mullins and Sue Price from the Men's Rights Agency
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First up we talk with the author of the new book Parenting for Character, by the headmaster of Redfield College in Sydney Andrew Mullins. Later in the show we talk with Sue Price from the Men's Rights Agency about the government's hypocritical half-assed attempts to reform family law which are like to make the situation for fathers even worse than it is today.
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Mon. 23 January 2006
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2006: What You Can Expect
With special guests Geoffrey Greene, former director of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia and Wayne Butler, lobbyist for change.
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The Family Court of Australia has been an unconscionable disgrace for the entire ten years the Howard government has been in power. Many people believe this Marxist feminist relic from the 1970s should have been abolished years ago.
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Mon. 12 December 2005
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Whither Family Law?
Special Guests: Commentator Simon Hunt and Barry Williams, President Lone Fathers.
   
   
This was our last show of the year for 2005. The Dads On The Air team would like to thank all the forum participants, who have made it such a lively debating ground during the past year. And thanks to our interview subjects, who this year included the head of the Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant.
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Mon. 28 November 2005
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Changes at Child Support
Special Guests: Child Support Agency General Manager Matt Miller and Shared Parenting Council of Australia Director Ed Dabrowsvki
One thing the Federal Government knew when they appointed Matt Miller as general manager of the troubled Child Support Agency, he is an accomplished media performer. This is his second appearance on Dads On The Air this year and instead of reviling us as the unreconstructed spawn of the devil, as some feminist groups tend to do, he has seen the program as an opportunity to confront and interact with some of the Agency's harshest critics and most difficult clients. He has also seen it as a way of discussing changes the government has foreshadowed and building goodwill where none lay before. Miller has followed some of the complaints being made on this website and has made the offer of personally looking at any cases brought forward by DOTA listeners. We are in the process of working out how best this can be done.
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Mon. 21 November 2005
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Honour Dishonour
Special Guests: Victoria Joy
Dads On The Air is non-denominational but one of us, Uncle Buck, is a bit born-again, as anyone who has followed the history of the show would know. So we promised him he could do a Christian show and this is it. In some of its forms christianity is as radical an ideology as any on the planet. Victoria Joy from the US has been running Honour Dishonour Workshops; some of the themes of which interconnect with things we have talked about over the year.
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Mon. 14 November 2005
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i-dont.com.au
Special Guests: Melinda Poole
The amicable divorce has become a fashion statement. Anything to avoid years of bitterness and dispute. In the rush to common sense commercial opportunities are opening up. The very enterprising Melinda Poole has established Australia's Divorce Directory at
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Mon. 31 October 2005
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The Rise of Raunch Culture and the State of Play
Special Guests: Ross Mitchell
Some shows work better than others, but our greatest strength is our perserverence. We had hoped to interview Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs and the Rise of Raunch Culture, but the interview fell through due to plane schedules; nonetheless we take a look at the book and the disturbing results of being constantly told: you can do anything you want. We also talk with our prolific forum contributer Ross Mitchell about the general state of play for blokes bringing up kids on their own. As any separated father who has dealt with Centrelink knows, they treat you as the enemy even if the kids are living with you. This is typical of the Australian public service and this sexism and discrimination against men must stop. Blokes work very hard to pay the taxes to prop up the multi-billion dollar welfare industry, focussed on the government promoted and created phenomenon of the single mother; but don't expect a nano-second of gratitude from those who think they're entitled to live off everybody elses hard work. MItchell talks about the daily struggle for men dealing with the kids and a system absolutely hostile to their interests and the interests of their kids.
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Mon. 24 October 2005
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The Men's Rights Agency
Special Guests: Sue Price
Men are being mistreated by the Australian court system in ever increasing numbers; from a man who spent 89 days in jail for no reason after being accused of domestic violence under Tasmania's extremist laws; another man jailed indefinitely in Western Australia by the Family Court after trying to protect his assets from the ravages of lawyers and his ex-wife, from fathers continuing to lose any contact at all with their children under the dysfunctional and despised Family Court, while still others, economic refugees fleeing Australia for a better life, are being arrested at Australian airports if they are deemed to owe the Child Support Agency money. Never before have the citizens of this country been treated with such peurile and routine contempt, and never has there been a greater need for organisations like The Men's Rights Agency.
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Sun. 09 October 2005
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Mon. 19 September 2005
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Myths of the Domestic Violence Industry
Special Guests: Dr Charles Corry
These days you can't even go to the toilets at the cinema without being bombarded with posters charicaturising men as violent.
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Mon. 12 September 2005
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The Child Support Agency
Special Guests: New General Manager of the CSA Matt Miller and Alby Schultz, outspoken member for Hume
Considering how very rude we've been about the Child Support Agency over the past five years we thought it rather good of the new General Manager Matt Miller to come on the show. Since coming to his position Miller has attended a fatherhood conference, shared at a Dads In Distress meeting, spoiken at a Men's Rights Agency monthly meeting and made conciliatory noises in facing his Agency's harshest critics.
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Mon. 05 September 2005
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Dads In Distress
Special Guests: Founder Tony Miller and other members of the DIDS team John Black and Dave
Dads In Distress has spread rapidly around Australia, with new meetings opening every month. Their self-help philosophy and their no-nonsense approach has hit a chord with men everywhere. Other lobby groups, who are highly critical of the bias and discrimination of government agencies including the Family Court, the Child Support Agency, Legal Aid, Centrelink, the Institute of Family Studies and the bureaucracy at large, scare the wits out of politicians and pose a direct threat to existing feminist-based power structures.
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Mon. 29 August 2005
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The Fatherhood Foundation and Howard's Betrayal
Special Guests: Warwick and Alison Marsh Fatherhood Foundation
FIVE years ago the separated fathers of Australia would have died in the ditch for John Howard. Their faith has gone unfulfilled.
The Prime Minister took this nation to war on the flimsiest of evidence - far flimsier than the overwhelming evidence that the Family Court of Australia and the Child Support Agency, along with their handmaidens in Legal Aid and Centrelink, are in urgent need of reform.... read more |
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Mon. 22 August 2005
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In Memory of Lionel Richards
Special Guests: Geoffrey Greene, Don Trodden, Warwick Marsh, Jan, Tony Miller and others
Lionel Richards, founder of the Ozydads Network, has died from a heart attack at the age of 56. He will be sadly missed. Lionel was known across Australia and indeed thanks to the internet across the world for his tireless efforts on the part of separated fathers and separated families. Lionel was the bloke who would ring you up when no one else cared, a notoriously manic night owl with a heart the size of the rock. Women devestated by the notorious bastardry of the Family Court and the Child Support Agency were amongst his staunchest fans. He worked tirelessly for separated fathers and their children.
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Mon. 08 August 2005
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Mr Mum and Loving It
Special Guest: Damian Kringas and Lindsay Jackel
We interview author of the very entertaining book Mr Mum and Loving It: Staying Home with the kids - A man's survival guide.
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Mon. 01 August 2005
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Ruddock Tours Australia Insulting Dads
Special Guest: John Flanagan, Non Custodial Parents Party; Sue Price, Men's Rights and extracts from Philip Ruddock's public meetings
  
Attorney General of Australia Philip Ruddock has been touring Australia peddling the bureaucratic lie that his government is implementing the most sweeping reforms to family law in 30 years. The government is doing nothing of the kind.
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Mon. 25 July 2005
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Why Men Earn More
Special Guest: Warren Farrell
We are delighted to once again welcome one of the world's foremost commentators and authors on fathers and gender issues, Warren Farrell. His books include The Myth of Male Power, Why Men Are The Way They Are, Father and Child Reunion and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say.
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Mon. 27 June 2005
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Dads On The March
After months of organisation the march finally took place; and here we try to capture some of the atmosphere and record some of the voices of the different people who took part.
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Tue. 14 June 2005
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Mon. 13 June 2005
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My Momma Told Me: There'd be Days Like This
Special Guest: Sue Price
Almost nothing went right this day; Michael Flood, an academic who promotes a great deal of debate and even vitriol for his pro-feminist stance, was meant to come on but didn't after the birth of his first son the night before. Fair excuse. And of course congratulations. Instead we take a somewhat erratic look at the current state of affairs; weird in the wires you could say, befitting the 13th. Later in the show we talk to Sue Price, who gives her sharp eyed view on pending child support reform. |
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Mon. 23 May 2005
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International Men's Health Week
Special Guest: Greg Millan - Men's Program Manager with Lifeline
Greg Millan says Celebrating International Men's Health Week (IMHW) in 2005, held from June 13th to 19th is one of the best ways of recognising and celebrating the resourcefulness, determination, wisdom and courage of Australian men in their efforts to build healthy environments, often in the face of significant adversity, disadvantage and neglect. It is also a time to raise community awareness about the still poor state of men's health and wellbeing in Australia today.
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Mon. 16 May 2005
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Law Week
Editorial coming soon. |
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Mon. 09 May 2005
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The Men's Survival Centre
Special Guest: Niel Peck - Dads In Distress - 1300 853 437
The Men's Survival Centre, an outgrowth of the group Dads In Distress, has been set up at Coffs Harbour NSW with funding from the government through Family and Community Services.
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Mon. 02 May 2005
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Civil Action Self Action
Special Guests: Ken Parrington and Joseph Zammit Organisers of a march on Parliament House and Clare Mann, Author of Myths of Life
Action, of course, is the magic word; and heroic actions take many forms. Whether they succeed or fail, the efforts of two men in Canberra to organise a march on Parliament house for June 20 to protest family law and child support issues has been grand in concept. Mobilising or even coordinating the atomised and disjointed fathers movement in Australia is notoriously difficult. Taking control of one's own destiny is part of what Clare Mann is also all about, in a very different sense. Between them we look to noble achievement.
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Mon. 25 April 2005
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Picnics Past
IN early April an enterprising couple Michael and Tanya from the Hunter Valley in NSW decided to try and organise a picnic at Sydney's historic and picturesque Domain for people interested in family law and child support reform. Like so many others, their lives had been damaged by the very government supposed to protect them, their dreams of happy family picnics long shattered. ... read more |
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Mon. 28 March 2005
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Kangaroo Court
Special Guest: John Hirst
The utterly arbitrary and massively incompetent nature of Family Court decisions, where judges cannot even get basic things like trial dates correct, is known to every one who has wasted time and money getting a final decision from this despised institution. Traditionally the court has operated on one principal: whatever the mother says is credible, whatever the father says are the words of a patriarchal oppressor to be discounted at all cost. The interests of the child, normally best served by a good relationship with both parents, are almost always ignored by the Court.
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Mon. 14 March 2005
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Legal Force Legal Farce
Special Guest: Roger Weidner and John Wilson
Roger, a former attorney, is one of the most determined and best known critics of the US judicial system. John is his Australian equivalent.... read more |
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Mon. 07 March 2005
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Old Soldiers
Special Guest: Barry Williams - Lone Fathers Association of Australia
Family law and child support is an unmitigated mess in this country, doing massive harm to parents, children and families alike. Yet the Howard government, after almost nine years in office, has been prepared to watch and do nothing as hundreds of thousands of people's lives are damaged by the dysfunctional and discredited family law industry. While the scene has changed dramatically in recent times, for many years the media treated Barry Williams as if he was the only separated father in the country. He was the sole voice for destroyed dads.
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Mon. 28 February 2005
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The Child Support Catastrophe
Special Guest: Richard Cruikshank Researcher on the CSA Leehan, one of the many women who's family has been adversely affected by the scheme and Sue Price, Men's Rights Agency, who has fought for years to bring the appalling consequences of the Agency to public attention.
PIR analysis of the latest government figures released on the Child Support Agency clearly demonstrate the undisclosed burden on taxpayers created by the child support scheme. A project which began with high ideals has turned into a costly endeavour with no tangible benefits for children or their parents.
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Mon. 21 February 2005
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Whores Of The Court
Special Guest: John McGuiness, McKenzie's Friend and Mike Woods, CCHR
CHRISTMAS DAY. A POLICE STATION CAR PARK.
Malcolm has not seen his nine year old son and six year old daughter for more than a month. The children don't get out of the car. Their father pushes presents at them through the car window, tries to talk. After five minutes the children are driven off. Malcolm has only seen his son in sessions with a Family Court appointed psychologist since. Malcolm is one of more than 200 Australians, primarily fathers, estimated on one count to be accused of sexually abusing their children each week - the atomic bomb of custody disputes. Like thousands of other fathers his life has imploded into a nightmare of expensive litigation and conflicting experts.
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Mon. 14 February 2005
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Radar
Special Guest: Trudy Schuett from RADAR and Lionel Richards, OzyDads Network
RADAR stands for "Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting." In the US a network of men and women have launched the RADAR campaign, attempting to work with reporters, editors, and producers around the country to assure the media provides even-handed portrayal of the domestic abuse issue. Volunteers also provide access to hard-to-find information showing a comprehensive picture of the problem. RADAR's national network of Media Monitors is reviewing print, TV, and radio coverage of domestic violence stories and reporting on a daily basis.
Monitors identify biased news coverage and work with local media representatives to promote complete, accurate, and balanced reporting.
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Mon. 31 January 2005
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Grandparents in Distress
Special Guest: Bev Pattenden - Grandparents In Distress
Many grandparents across the country spoke passionately to the inquiry recent government inquiry into child custody and their concerns are a core part of government proposals to reform family law. Many of these deeply hurt people are passionate supporters of joint custody. Thus the quip: it's a brave government that ignores the grannies of Australia!
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Mon. 17 January 2005
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The Future of the Family Court
Special Guest: Diana Bryant - Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
We are delighted to have Diana Bryant, the new Chief Justice of the Family Court, on our first program for 2005. Some battle scarred family law reformers are going so far as to call her "a breath of fresh air".
It is commonly said her predecessor Alastair Nicholson, one of the most despised and most controversial figures in Australian judicial history, left the court in a shambles and its reputation in tatters. But oddly enough, the widespread animosity in the Australian community towards the Family Court is not attracting to Diana Bryant herself.
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Mon. 20 December 2004
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That Was The Year That Was
Special Guests: SA Senator Andrew Evans Family First
Befitting the last show of the year, we were to have Chief Justice of the Family Court Diana Bryant on the show but she called in sick at the last minute. This allowed us to do other things; including being a little more rude than we might otherwise have been! And allowed us to summarise what has been in many ways a momentous year.
It began with great hope that Australia would finally be seeing genuine reform of family law and child support; followed by great disappointment. But in a strange way, the reform and the broad community push for shared parenting to become the norm post-separation just kept on moving despite all the bureaucrats, lawyers, so-called experts and politicians who stood in the way. For the distress over these issues has reached critical mass. And of course the spectacular progress of F4J in England - who could forget Buckingham Palace and Tony Blair's purple condoms for instance - added a new dramatic edge to the debate.
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Mon. 13 December 2004
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The Necessary Revolution
Special Guests: Michael Green QC, author Fathers After Divorce and Brad Mander Camp Connect, Melbourne.
Michael Green has called the introduction of shared parenting as the norm post-separation as "the necessary revolution".
Submissions close on the 14 January for public input into the the governmente proposed changes to family law, including the establishment of 65 "relationship centres". They are being claimed as the most sweeping changes to family law in a quarter of a century.
Details of the proposals and how you can respond can be found at:
http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/familyl
awhome.nsf/0/5557139904E4673ECA256F47007D1165?OpenDocument
Our editorial position is that the reforms will fail unless there is more determined approach to entrench shared parenting as the most common outcome post separation, accompanied by bureaucratic and judicial reform, along with community education and fundamental changes to the welfare, child support and child protection cultures.
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Mon. 06 December 2004
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The Male Blueprint
Special Guests: Collette Gallagher from Mens Health magazine and John Flanagan Non-Custodial Parents Party
First up we talk with Collette Gallagher from Men's Health magazine. It's not often you hear someone these days say Australian men are loved all around the world for being sunny, warm and handsome creatures, for just being themselves. But that's the positive view coming out of Men's Health and the very charming and entertaining Collette Gallagher.
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Mon. 29 November 2004
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Public Hysteria and Domestic Violence
Special Guest: Dr Charles Corry
Dr Corry is the President of the Equal Justice Foundation and runs the website http;//www.dvmen.org and the related http://ww.ejfi.org
Are we really living in the midst of a domestic violence epidemic?
Dr Corry says: In bringing order, logic, reason, and due process back from the hysteria now surrounding domestic violence, the first problem has been to provide and distribute reliable, well-researched information with articles by both men and women, and to document the impact current DV laws have on individual men and women. Since November 1999 Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado has been doing this.
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Mon. 22 November 2004
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Ferment: The Best of 2004
Special Guest: Lindsay Jackel - Moderator, Chatline Nuance and News Service Manumit
Below Lindsay Jackel has grouped some of his favourite pieces of journalism for 2004. Even in the four years we've been going it is noticeable that media awareness of fatherhood issues has increased substantially.
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Mon. 15 November 2004
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Have Your Say
Special Guest: Attorney General Philip Ruddock
This is your last chance to have any direct input into what the government is calling the "most significant changes to the family law system since 1975" after a long period of inquiry, delay and uncertainty.
In this half hour interview the Attorney General of Australia Philip Ruddock appears well aware of community discontent around the issues of family law and child support. He has called on community input into a discussion paper "A New Approach to the Family Law System" which promotes "wide-ranging reforms" to the family law system to be introduced by the middle of next year.
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Mon. 08 November 2004
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Consequences
Special Guest: Robert Martin, commentator from Cairns in north Queensland and Geoffrey Greene, former Federal Director Shared Parenting Council of Australia
The conversation roamed from storm clouds to open plains and we can't sum it up better than British publication Civitas has already done with this piece called Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family by Rebecca O'Neill:
The full text and sources can be found at:
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php?PHPSESSID=04a5571963443f82281d8c0bd4332322
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Mon. 01 November 2004
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Sex Discrimination: You're Paying For It
Special Guest: Sue Price - Men's Rights Agency
Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner of Australia Pru Goward has said that now the election has been won by the Howard government all federal policy initiatives need to be measured against gender concerns.
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Mon. 13 September 2004
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In the Name of the Father:Dads Speak Out Worldwide
Special Guests: Richard Farr, founder KRights Radio and Andrew King, Men and Relationships Conference
KRights Radio is now broadcasting fathers issues 24 hours a day seven days a week on the internet and is a unique step forward in broadcasting history.
With greater press freedom in the US than in Australia, which suffers from extreme censorship of family law matters, it is naming the judges and attorneys who are destroying children's lives.
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Mon. 06 September 2004
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Forgotten Australians
Special Guests: Steve Fielding, Family First Party and Shane Nichols Care For Us
Half a million children were kept in institutions in Australia between the 1920s and the 1970s. Many of those children were abused. Shane Nichols is one of them. In a moving interview, he talks about what it was like.
But first up, we talk with Steve Fielding of the Family First Party. In election mode, all our leading politicians are spouting totally insincere rubbish about families while overseeing family law and child support policies which have destroyed the lives of millions of Australian parents and children.
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Mon. 30 August 2004
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Children Overboard
Special Guests: Sue Price, Men?s Rights Agency and John Flanagan Non-Custodial Parents Party
All the claptrap and nonsense coming out of the mouths of both Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham rings very hollow indeed for millions of Australian men and women disaffected by separation, those who have seen their lives destroyed by the systemic bastardry and dysfunction of the Family Court, the Child Support Agency, Centrelink, Legal Aid and the rest of the infrastructure inflicting chaos on our children.
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Mon. 23 August 2004
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The Shed
Special Guests: Roger Price - Member for Chifley and Professor John MacDonald, University of Western Sydney
Australia is in election mode and our Prime Minister John Howard and the leader of the Opposition Mark Latham have both decided to totally ignore the concerns of millions separated fathers and separated families around the country. There was an 18% swing amongst men to the conservatives over the past three elections. Many of these natural Labor voters were only voting for the Tories because they believed they would do something about the far-left Stalinesque lunacy of the Family Court and the Child Support Agency.
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Mon. 16 August 2004
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Alby For PM
Special Guest: Alby Schultz - Member for Hume
Maverick Liberal Alby Schultz, who wears an eye patch after losing one eye in an accident, has done what almost no other politician has ever had the guts or the common decency to do: speak out boldly on behalf of his constituents about the disastrous social and personal consequences of the Child Support Agency.
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Mon. 09 August 2004
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Mounting Outrage
Special Guest: Suffering Partner Sally and John Ryan, NSW Opposition Spokesman Community Services
There?s barely a separated father or fair minded person in the country who isn?t frustrated by the Howard government?s callow, shallow and completely pathetic response to family law and child support reform after eight years of government and a trail of wrecked lives a mile long. Anyone who is going to vote for Prime Minister John Howard thinking he will reform child support and family law is living in pixie land.
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Mon. 02 August 2004
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Smoke and Mirrors
Special Guest: Professor Stephen Baskerville, President, American Coalition of Fathers and Children
The girls got billions, the boys got a four page ?framework statement?.
In the lead up to the next election the Prime Minister John Howard has dished out billions upon billions upon billions of dollars of our money in everything from ?life style support payments? for Centrelink clients, almost all women, for maternity payments, encouraging teenage mothers to go out and have more kids, for domestic violence campaigns which vilify men, lie about the extent of DV in the community and promote public hysteria. You name it, a feminist wish list as long as your arm, Howard's provided it. Trying to be a clever politician, he tried to gazzump the Labor party?s agenda.
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Mon. 19 July 2004
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Fathers 4 Equality
Special Guest: Kevin Boers
While named as a father?s group as fathers and their children are most often the victim of sole residence orders, Fathers4Equality is a non-gender specific organisation which represents the interests of children and their non-resident parents and grandparents.
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Mon. 28 June 2004
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Sun Tzu & The Art of the Gender War
Special Guest: Michael Bukanin
The book ?Sun Tzu and The Art of the Gender War? was commenced as a result of the author?s personal experience in dealing with the Family Court, the Child Support Agency, the Aust Taxation Office and other government agencies. Two years of research plus interviews with many men and women provided the material that then took three years to collate.
Author Michael Bukanin says ?The Gender War? is not a hate book, but it is also not an apology for being born a male. It logically, rationally and unemotionally describes the methods employed against men and then details how to defeat them. It is a book for both men and women and puts forward the argument that the overthrowing of hardline feminism will require the unity of both genders. The response from readers has so far been entirely positive.
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Mon. 21 June 2004
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Reform Failure
Special Guest: Geoffrey Greene, former Director of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia
The formation of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia was a significant step forward in coalescing groups of like-minded reformers and publicizing the common-sense and widely supported cause of shared parenting or joint custody as the norm post separation. Geoffrey Greene wore a high media profile during the so far failed campaign and has been a significant figure in the perhaps un-unified but nevertheless widespread push for a move away from the extremist anti-father ideologies of the past.
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Mon. 07 June 2004
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What?s Wrong With This Picture
Special Guest: Bruce Smyth, Researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Research indicates most separated fathers want shared care of their children. Most mothers don?t, although we don?t know why. Perhaps it is merely financial concerns, or custom. Arrayed against those who seek the commonsense notion of shared parenting are the Family Court, the Child Support Agency, Centrelink, Legal Aid and increasingly the domestic violence industry.
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Mon. 31 May 2004
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F4J Takes Over The World
Special Guest: Matthew O'Connor, Founder of Fathers 4 Justice and Trevor Arthurson, F4J Australia
Fathers 4 Justice, mounting an escalating campaign of civil disobedience across the UK, have attracted prominent, sympathetic and often searching coverage since they began their spectacular series of super-hero and super-stunt protests, targeting courts and solicitor's offices in particular. Every court proceeding, there are now 22 of its members involved in court proceedings, provides more opportunities for antics and media stunts, furthering their ends and frustrating authorities. The group has now spread from the UK to Australia and Canada. Many of its key players, including both Arthurson and O'Connor, have backgrounds in marketing which have helped them catch the imaginations of journalists jaded by all normal protests.... read more |
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Mon. 24 May 2004
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The Failure of Parliament
Special Guest: John Flanagan The Non-Custodial Parents Party
"There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System." Judge Brian Lindsay Retired Supreme Court Judge New York, New York
'Parliament has failed children, failed fathers and failed families.' F4J.
Well it was the week that in spectacular fashion, through three condoms filled with purple powder which hit the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons, the world heard about Fathers For Justice - F4J. The group, with its spectacular and often witty protests, has caught the imagination of the media worldwide and has now spread from the UK to both Canada and Australia. We talk to its founder Matthew O'Connor next week.
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Mon. 17 May 2004
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Howard Duds Dads
Special Guests: Matilda Bawden, Richard Hillman Foundation and Geoff Moar, Psychologist studying Fathers After Separation
Geoff is conducting research program on the relationship between separated fathers and their children under the auspices of Charles Sturt University. He is seeking volunteers to fill out a questionnaire. It takes about 45 minutes. Details are below. To get a copy of the questionnaire email gmsmoar@dragnet.com.au
First up we take a look at the budget, which marked in its own way the death of any hope at all for proper family law or child support reform.
Prime Minister John Howard has spat on the hopes and dreams of separated family in the country. The government now faces an electoral backlash from the millions of Australians distressed by the family law and child support systems.
The Howard government's budget, with the jocular go forth and have babies never mind the consequences rhetoric, has ignored the welfare of those affected by separation, the fathers, the children, the grandparents, the second wives, while indulging in some astonishing pork barrelling.
One of the great initiatives was $1.5 billion maternity payment, beginning at $3,000 and rising to $5,000. Paternity leave got not a mention. Indeed fathers got not a mention.
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Mon. 10 May 2004
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Missed Opportunity
Special Guests: John Flanagan, Non-Custodial Parents Party and Warwick Marsh, Fatherhood Foundation
Warwick Marsh from the Fatherhood Foundation and John Flanagan from the Non-Custodial Parents Party we will be examining the failure of the Howard government to grasp an historic opportunity to reform the lives of millions of Australians.
Warwick Marsh is the President of the Fatherhood Foundation. The Foundation is a charitable and non-profit organisaton based in Wollongong. Warwick seeks to promote the concept of Fatherhood. This is regardless of whether there is a separated or an intact family situation.
Warwick was a co-convenor of the National Fathering Forum held at Parliament House in Canberra on 10 February 2003. As a result of the Forum, a Twelve Point Plan was formulated. The Plan aims to strengthen and support Australian fathers.
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Mon. 03 May 2004
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Calumny and Hope
Special Guests: Dr Wade Horn, US Assistant Secretary Children and Families Lionel Richards, Ozy Dads Network
We'll also bring you an update from the Dads In Distress fundraiser at the Dural Hotel Motel in Sydney.
Dads In Distress has run out of funding; despite its rapid spread, high profile and clear effectiveness. It received start up money of $70,000 and emergency funds of $40,000 since it was founded in 2002. DIDS has just been rejected by the Australian Tax Office for tax gift status, allowing companies to claim donations as tax exemptions. This is a status accorded to the RSPCA. Why, an angry Tony Miller wants to know, is a dog's life worth an exemption but a mans isn't? We'll come back to the fundraiser later in the show.
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Mon. 26 April 2004
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Thousands Die Government Does Nothing
Special Guest: Di Underwood of GRANS and Tony Miller of Dads in Distress and with regular contributor Ed Dabrowski from The Shared Parenting Council, giving us his fortnightly sum up of the national push for family law and child support reform.
Fathers and family law groups around the country have long claimed there is a direct link between the high death rates amongst separated fathers, with male suicide now at century high levels, and the operations of the child support and family law systems.
If, as they claim, some three clients of the Child Support Agency suicide every day; that makes some eight thousand payers since John Howard came to office as Prime Minister of Australia.
We don't know if the claim is true. Official suicide statistics suggest it is well within reason. What we do need out of this government is a direct and published audit of the death rate of child support payers. Anything less is an abrogation of their moral obligations to govern in the best interests of the people and borders on criminal negligence.
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Mon. 19 April 2004
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Gender Reassignment: Life on the Frontiers
Special Guest: Sue Price of the Men's Rights Agency.
One of the last actions of retiring Chief Justice of the Family Court Alastair Nicholson has been to release his judgement allowing a 13 year old girl to begin gender reassignment therapy to become a boy. It is an Australian first and is provoking widespread condemnation. Critics of the court say the judgement proves everything they've always said. But some transsexual voices have been raised in support.
The case got worldwide coverage. We take a look at some of it. Here's a sample:
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Mon. 12 April 2004
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F4J in Australia
With special guests: Trevor Arthurson Australian, co-ordinator F4J and Ed Dabrowski, Shared Parenting Council of Australia.
F4J is now in Australia. There were demonstrations outside Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane Family Courts on April Fools Day with the theme of decontamination.
Trevor Arthurson, who has a background in marketing, will talk about new forms of political action. ?Direct action doesn?t have to be a dirty word, it doesn?t have to be nasty and doesn?t have to be illegal, as we have proved,? he says. ?Fathers For Justice is all about gaining public awareness and public sympathy through upbeat and humorous direct action.?
For photographs and more information on some of the Australian F4J activity: http://www.sos-family.org.au/Protests/20040401_FC_Protest.asp
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Mon. 05 April 2004
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One Hand Clapping
With Special Guests: Jim Nicolle, NZ Men's Convoy and Stephanie Tranter, Engaging Fathers Project
Editoral
The biggest news of the past week has been the retirement of Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Alastair Nicholson, and we'll be taking a look at some of the coverage and the mixed response to his departure. At the end of the program we'll also be looking at the current play in child custody reform and what the implications are for the ongoing debate with Ed Dabrowski from Western Australia.
A full interview with Alastair Nicholson and tributes to him can be found at a special edition of Courtside: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/court/pdf/courtside2004cj.pdf
Of course less flattering tributes are also not hard to find.
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Mon. 22 March 2004
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Never Again Never Ever
With Special Guest: Sue Cook Shared Parenting Council, South Australia and Dr Ragbir Bhathal, astronomer with University of Western Sydney Observatory
Editoral
Newspapers around the country reported that cabinet would today be considering changes to child custody laws, with particular focus on a families tribunal.
The Brisbane Courier Mail for example reported that "despite initial opposition to a new body from senior ministers including Treasurer Peter Costello, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock is making a last-minute bid for the tribunal."
The paper went on to say that support for a tribunal had increased since Cabinet first considered the issue at the beginning of the month.
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Mon. 15 March 2004
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Tough Choices in Tough Times
With Special Guest: Larry Anthony, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and Terry Melvin from Mensline. In the studio: Brian Mahony from the North Coast.
Editoral
Not to labour the analogy too hard but: the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs last week launched a survival guide for separated fathers in conjunction with Mensline and Relationships Australia this last week called Choices in Tough Times; and that of course is exactly what the government faces as it considers changes to child custody laws.
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Mon. 08 March 2004
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We Stood At the Turning Point
Wayne Butler, Shared Parent Council of Australia on the current play in child custody reform and Dr Lyn Turney, who is conducting a study on the social consequences of DNA and paternity testing at Swinburne University. They are seeking volunteers and we encourage fathers to participate in a helpful and courteous manner. You cannot be heard if you do not participate. The study is funded by the Australian Research Council. The details on how to participate are below.
Editoral
The Howard cabinet is likely to look at the child custody inquiry in the coming days.
There is a massive schizophrenia in the debate; with rekindled mainstream media interests. Comments coming from politicians have been stronger on the need for family law reform in preceding days, but exactly how that will progress is a matter of much consternation. It seems churlish to mention that the report, while it had some moments of reason, was on the whole a shocker when there is so much apparent good will and determination to enact reform.
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Tue. 02 March 2004
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Website Improvements
We have made two big changes to the site this month. We have replaced the comment system with a new forum style one for all programs from March 1 2004. You should notice that it will be easier to use and won?t suffer from performance issues when it receives the hundreds of comments.
One big change is that the new system allows you to register your details on the site. At present we have made that part of it completely voluntary as you can still anonymously post to the site. However there is a range of benefits if you do register including the ability to edit and delete your own posts.
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Mon. 01 March 2004
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Long Standing Disputes
With Special Guest Sue Price, Men's Rights Agency
Editoral
Co-founder of the MRA and based in Brisbane, Sue Price was in Sydney for an SBS Television forum on the recent parliamentary inquiry into child custody. So we had her in the studio. There has been widespread disappointment, angst and controversy over the report from the inquiry Every Picture Tells A Story, which rejected joint custody and stood in stark contrast to much of the evidence before the committee. But the SBS documentary does illustrate a continuing media interest in many of the issues raised over the past nine months.
We'll take a continuing look at the blanket media coverage the group F4J, perhaps best known for their super-hero stunts, has been receiving across the UK in their campaign of civil disobedience. Sue Price does not believe that such styles of activism would be successful in Australia; arguing that the British police are far more tolerant of eccentric civil actions than Australian authorities.
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Uncertain Futures
 
Click here to listen to this program with Windows Media Player.
With special guests Brad Mander from Camp Connect Melbourne activist David Brown
We're heading on to eight long years now that the Howard government has been in power.
Eight long years they have had the opportunity to do something about the travesty of family law and child support.
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What Now My Love?
Audio Webcast: Not available for this week's program.
With Special Guests: Bev Pattenden, Grandparents in Distress and Mike Woods CCHR
All the clever ones have decided that a presumption of 50/50 rebuttable joint custody after separation won't work.
But the beauties of such a presumption were that it was widely supported by the community, could be understood by anyone, immediately obliged the divorce industry and its taxpayer funded institutions to reform their practice, sent a clear message to separating parents that the state expected them to co-operatively care for their children after separation.
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Moving Foward
Harry Quick MP, Member for Franklin, TAS. Who?s acerbic commentary did much to enliven to inquiry.
Alan Cadman MP, Member for North Western Sydney seat of Mitchell in the Hills district, a staunch Christian and advocate of shared parenting.
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If it increases the number of listeners to the show we will keep doing it in addition to usual Real Media versions of the program. We are also encouraging your feedback and suggestions on how to make the site better as a whole; we plan to progressively make improvements throughout the year. One of the main issues at the moment is the comments section, as it doesn?t cope very well with the amount of feedback we are currently generating. That is something that we plan to change shortly. So tell us what you want and we do as much of it as we can. Send your comments to help.desk@zanyspace.com
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Chaos At The Crossroads
With Special Guests: Kay Hull, Chairwoman of the Family and Community Services Committee Inquiry into child custody and other matters and National Party MP for the safe seat of Riverina centred on Wagga Wagga, the largest inland town of NSW.
Peter Dutton, committee member and Liberal Party MP for the seat of Dickson north and west of the Brisbane city limits, the young former policeman who won the seat from Labor star Cheryl Kernot.
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Joint Parenting Council: Letter to the PM
Dear Prime Minister,
Custody Inquiry Continues The Cruel Hoax Perpetrated Against Children
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Media Release: Hon. Peter Lewis MP
31st December 2003 -- The Hon Speaker, Mr Peter Lewis, today slammed the House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs, Inquiry into Shared Parenting (HORISP), Report into Child Custody Arrangements.
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Media Release: Aussie Dads
Amid much anticipation and fan fare the House Of Reps committee released it's report into SHARED CUSTODY which was widely applauded by Gender Feminists and Mother's groups. It made some good points in the right direction but fell far short of the mark and went down like a lead balloon among Father's and Children's Rights groups and most others.
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Joint Parenting Association Press Release
Child Custody Inquiry Continues The Cruel Hoax Perpetrated Against Children
As many local and international commentators are aware the Australian child custody inquiry recently released its family law recommendations for public scrutiny.
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Editorial: Collusion and Corruption in Family Law
One of the sickest jokes of the whole fiasco of the government inquiry into child custody, which reported on December 29th, was the sight of the Family and Community Services Committee members warning the Chief Justice of the Family Court Alastair Nicholson to accept the report.
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Our Submission to the Inquiry
* After having done this program for almost three years we are aware of the enormous animosity in the community towards the institutions of family law and child support, including the Family Court of Australia and the Child Support Agency. By extension this animosity extends to the family law units of Legal Aid, to the Commonwealth Ombudsman's Office over its perceived failure to deal appropriately with complaints, and with the Attorney General's Department itself for its protection of the status quo.
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Editorial: Betrayal
Dads On The Air has been a significant supporter of the government inquiry into child custody which reported today.
Our support was clearly misguided and we apologise to our listeners.
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BETRAYAL: Government Inquiry Reports
With Special Guests Rod Hardwick of Dads Australia Sue Price of the Men's Rights Agency Geoffrey Greene, Shared Parenting Council of Australia along with various other guests from Men?s groups across the country.
Normal Program
This morning?s program at the later time of 11am included early analysis of the Committee?s report with Sue Price and Rod Hardwick.
Press Conference from Canberra
The 11am edition included the press conference of the committee live from Canberra, we have provided this part of the program as a separate webcast. As it was taken from a live feed, speakers are not identified but are those of the Committee members. Later in the conference there were some questions from journalists attending that are inaudible, creating short periods of silence.
Dads on the Air was the only program in the country to broadcast the press conference live and is the only place where you will be able to find more than a 10 second grab of this historic press conference.
Special Program: Internet only edition
This special Internet only edition of the program produced in conjunction with the Shared Parenting Council of Australia included reports from their various members. It gave a wide representation of the reaction of Men?s groups across the country and because it was recorded later in the afternoon it was able to go deeper into the report as participants were able to digest some of the 274 page report. |
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Men?s Rights Agency: Press Release
December 29th 2003 -- The Family and Community Affairs Committee report released this morning will do little to ensure children are raised by both parents.
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Media Release: Shared Parenting Council
CHILD CUSTODY REPORT LEAVES CHILDREN, FATHERS AND GRANDPARENTS OUT IN THE COLD
30 December 2003 -- The House of Representatives Committee Report into Child Custody has left children, fathers and grandparents with little change to their current status after family breakdown, Mr Geoffrey Greene, Federal Director of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia said today.
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Media Release: DADs Australia
BETRAYED
DADs Australia condemns the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee into Shared Parenting as a blatant act of betrayal against separated fathers, grand parents but most importantly, the 1million children from separated families. Mr Rod Hardwick, President of DADS Australia stated: ?Of all the 29 recommendations made by the Committee there should have been only one, that is that 50/50 Equal Parenting is to be accepted as the rebuttable presumption at the time of separation. The failure of the Committee to implement Equal Parenting in the light of overwhelming evidence that supports such a policy, is devastating not only for both parents, but especially the children who would have gained the most benefit.?
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List of Recommendations
Here is a list of recommendations reproduced from the report handed down by the government inquiry into child custody.... read more |
Fathers in Waiting: History in the Making
With special guest Michael Green QC, author of Fathers After Divorce. Margaret Appleby, Lifeline.
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The Weight of Evidence
With Special guests Roland Foster and John Flanagan
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Fundamental Reform Coming Your Way
With Special Guest Dr Sanford Braver
Author of Separated Dads: Shattering the Myths.
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The Family Court Faces Dismissal: Part Two
With Special Guest Yuri Joakimidis, Joint Parenting Organisation
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The Family Court Faces Dismissal
With Special Guest Lionel Richards OzyDads Network
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Pyne Defends the CSA's Track Record
With Special Guests Christopher Pyne MP, the politician now responsible for the day to day running of the Child Support Agency and Andrew Evans MLC, on the South Australian parliamentary investigation into the Status of Fatherhood.
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Domestic Violence, The Inquiry, The Great Debate
With Special Guests Richard Long, President, NSW Family Law Reform Association Sue Price, co-founder, Mens Rights Agency.
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Inquiry Update
With Special Guest President of Lone Fathers Barry Williams and Family's First MLC from South Australia Andrew Evans. Regular guests Rod Hardwick of Dads Australia and Geoffrey Greene of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia.
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Exposing the Infrastructure
With special guest Noel Giblett of Lifeline WA, who helped prepare the Dads@Lifeline submission to the current Federal Government's House of Representatives committee inquiry into joint custody, child support and other matters. An extract is contained below.
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The Politics of Family
With Special guests Dr Muriel Newman MP, a leading critic of family law and child protection systems in New Zealand Tony Watkins, witness to the current government inquiry into child custody
* This week?s audio is of a lower standard than usual. In parts the hosts are distorted (in audio terms only) and guests are hard to hear. We apologise to our listeners and will work to ensure that future webcasts don?t experience the same problems.
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The Disaster of Child Support
With Special Guests Alison Pearce, Founder, Partners of Paying Parents (POPPS) and Paul Henman, researcher Macquarie University and author of the article Current Concerns in Australian Child Support Policy
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The Inquiry Special
With Special Guest Kay Hull MP, Chairwoman of the House of Representatives Family and Community Services Committee's inquiry into child custody and other matters
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How Shared Parenting Can Work in Practice
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Reforming Divorce Law and the Status of Fatherhood
With Special Guests Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Independent Studies Barry Maley on reforming divorce law and Andrew Evans, SA MP from the Family First Party who is putting a motion to the SA Parliament this week calling for an inquiry into the status of fatherhood. The motion is expected to pass.
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The Role of Fathers in Child Care and Protection
With Special Guest Damien Hickman, along with regular guests Sue Price of the Men's Rights Agency and Geoffrey Greene from the Shared Parenting Council of Australia
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Shattering the Myths
With Special Guest Geoffrey Greene from the Shared Parenting Council of Australia
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The Push for Change
With special guests Senator Jeannie Ferris a strong supporter of reform and Tony Watkins a first-day witness at the public hearings of Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Joint Custody and other matters.
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Constitutional Crisis: The Family Court caught out
With special guests Geoffrey Greene, Shared Parenting Council of Australia Sue Price, Mens Rights Agency
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Birthdays, Closing Doors, the Ends of Eras
With special Guests Ross Cameron MP, Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services Rod Hardwick, Dads Austalia Sue Price, Mens Rights Agency Geoffrey Greene, Shared Parenting Council of Australia
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Shared Parenting: What the Research Shows
With Special Guest Michael Woods, lecturer at the University of Western Sydney's Men's Health and Information Resource Centre.
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Child Support Agency to cost taxpayers $40 billion
With Special Guest Richard Cruickshank, head of PIR Research
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The Case For Shared Parenting
With Special Guest Michael Green QC
Author of Fathers After Divorce
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The Big Lies
We intended to put up online an interview with Domestic Violence Researcher Anne Lewis, however, technical difficulties at the last moment overwhelmed us.
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DNA and the control of Paternity Testing
With Special Guests: Australian Law Reform Commissioner Brian Opeskin and Men's Rights Agency co-founder Sue Price
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