Fathers4Equality Continue Their Attacks On Journalists

Below, the Fathers4Equality are planning to destroy a journalists career, because she dared to provide material that was opposed to shared parenting.  This is an example of the bullying behavior that has been constant from these groups.  To the press councils credit, they have complained to F4E for the large number of submissions that they received.  if only the Attorney General have exorcised the same wisdom.  

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From: PhilM <punter@internode.on.net>

To: fathers4equality@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 11:22:40 AM

Subject: Re: [fathers4equality] Disturbing letter from Australian Press Council

I'd suggest you pinpoint the biggest advertisers in The Australian and get 

your concerns to them. It works for me many years ago when The Advertiser in 

South Australia went in a similar direction, to a point where I was 

threatened with legal action by one of the sub-editors. Just be careful how 

it's worded, always putting lots of "In my/our opinion.... " into your 

arguements. Especially go for those companies that more likely get sales 

from men than women. The newspapers are fully aware though of what gender 

has the most control of the purse-strings and it's why they will be so 

biased in their articles, but I think they also need to remember that men 

have sisters, mothers, new partners, etc that all see how bad the situation 

is for any father and the kids these days when the parents split.

PhilM

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From: ashvani_patil

To: fathers4equality@ yahoogroups. com

Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:34 AM

Subject: [fathers4equality] Disturbing letter from Australian Press Council

Folks,

I have received a disturbing letter from the Australian Press Council.

They have 'complained' to F4E that they have received over 60 submissions 

about Caroline Overington's recent anti-shared care

articles.

It seems from the sub-text that the APC is not interested in reviewing these

complaints, as they are asking that I instead write to the Editor of the 

Australian myself, and they are asking this in a less than respectful tone.

Given that they know that I had already written to the editor but received 

no response, I am somewhat bemused by this request.

I can understand their desire to treat all the complaints about Overington 

as one submission, but they seem not to be interested in the issue itself, 

and are trying to wash their hands of it.

Well, I don't think this is good enough.

Before I complain to them however I want some private correspondence from 

you all on the following matter.

I will indeed write to the editor one more time, with a list of DEMANDS from 

us. Given the damage done by Overington, we need to come up with a list of 

demands of equal weighting. Lets be creative here.  Just email me at this email address with your ideas. 

The Backlash: Fathers4Equality Attack Award Winning Journalist

  Caroline Overington is well known for winning the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism and the Walkley Award for investigative journalism for her coverage of the AWB scandal in November 2006.  In 2007, she received much criticism after an email joke with a minister went wrong and negative press was released against her with unsubstantiated claims.  Whilst journalism was never meant to be easy, Caroline persists in exposing some of the most difficult issues of our times: what goes on behind those Family Court doors.  Its all too easy to write complimentary articles on Fathers rights groups that are commonly known for their intimidation and contempt for women.  

There are times where it is frustrating to see undeserving sympathy amounted towards these bullies and as anyone who has braved against such behaviors know that it takes a lot of courage to stand up to them.  If fathers Rights had it their way, there would be no objection to violence against women and children, women would be forced without question to submit to their demands.  In an ideal FR world, DV deaths would be explained with an "accident" and children would be seen and not heard.  

There is an exception to that.  There are a few strong women and men who know that this is beyond ethics to the extent of cruelty that have ignored the constant intimidation, abuse and degradation to break the silence of these horrors.  Whilst we do not agree with all of the articles that Caroline Overington has written, her writing on the mothers and children's experience in Family Court matters reveals an underlying truth that has been overlooked by other journalists.  

Writing on the fathers rights side is like writing how banks are wonderful for taking the fees from pensioners or students.  Its a truth from a more powerful group that thrives upon exploiting the powerless.  

Caroline Overington has been the subject of hatred from the fathers rights groups since her series of articles about a mother who was isolated by a court order.  

Some of the statements in the Fathers4Equality group are:

"It is any wonder she is now spearheading a campaign for the violent seething bitch brigade" - Peter Fathers4Equality

"Caroline Overington continues her assault on separated fathers and their 

children." Tom Knoll

From: ashvani_patil

To: fathers4equality@ yahoogroups. com

Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:20 PM

Subject: [fathers4equality] Deceptive-unbalance d article in "The Australian" - complain now

Deceptive & unbalanced reporting in "The Australian"

Parent law ties women to men - Caroline Overington - 29-May-09

* Read the Deceptive & unbalanced Article
* Now read the Judgment
* Comment Here
* Email your complaint to the editor

 She must be desperate to change these laws before her child custody hearing.

The Australian 3-June-09
Family Law experts slate shared-parenting
http://www.theaustr alian.news. com.au/story/ 0,25197,25580456 -26103,00. html

The Australian 3-June-09
'Flaws' in John Howard's parenting law
http://www.theaustr alian.news. com.au/story/ 0,25197,25579454 -601,00.html

Ash Patil - Fathers4Equality

An excerpt from "The Politics of Father Rights Activists – Do persistent critics of the Family Court behave in a way which stands up to scrutiny?"By M. C. Dunn,  reveals that such hatred is common:

Chief Justice Nicholson, HREOC Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, even academics like men’s interest researcher Michael Flood are described as “the enemy”, “maggots”, labelled misandrists and often slandered using derogatory terms, sometimes with homophobic labels.  Occasionally post describe inflicting murderous desires on these individuals, particularly the Chief Justice and his colleagues (“If I could ask for my "Family Law Court Judge" (FLCJ) to be hanged”).  An example of the more extreme of emails was posted on a list moderated by a former State director of the SPCA that stated:

Posted 19/03/2004 Ozydads network

“>What about Magistrates like Lawrence of Rockingham WA who not only

>accepted false DVO's but re-established them for THREE MORE YEARS!!1

>I want to kill that cunt and god help him if I find his address”

 

Sometimes the FRAO e-lists and sites accuse the Courts of being like feminists who they see as dictators (“feminazis” or “feminazi puppeteers”) and who are accused of great crimes (“crimes against humanity”, “legal child abductors”).  Other hate rhetoric is aimed at professionals generally, especially lawyers, social workers and even police (“Lawyer-solicitor-barrister-judge scum mafia are riding on feminazi brainwashing ordinary taxpayers into believing they are neither well-paid thieves nor child abusers”). 

 

More hate speech and intimidation is reserved for single-mother and sole parents’ spokeswomen who are vilified, slandered, defamed and hated with ferocity (“face of feminazi evil”, “fucking fat slag blood-sucking liar”).   When the media allow these women to have a counter voice the hate-speech is sometimes escalated into threats and/or outright intimidation as posts on DOA escalated until FRAO, Fathers 4 Justice’s Australian Coordinator, Trevor Arthurson (who appeared in the same 60 Minutes program) sought to incite harm against Sole Parents’ Union President, Kathleen Swinbourne with a false allegation that stated “WE SHOULD REPORT HER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES [CHILD PROTECTION AGENCY] FOR THE WAY SHE TREATED HER SON” (DOA 30/5/04)."

Social Abuse: Mother Ordered to stay in isolated town whilst father roams where he pleases

Family Court forces mum to stay in isolated town after split 

By Caroline Overington

The Australian

May 29, 2009 07:23am

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Bond ... a mother has been forced to stay in an isolated town by the Family Court. File picture

• Couple split after moving to remote town
• Court says mum cannot leave with daughter
• Dad wants her near and won't leave job

WIVES who follow their husbands to remote corners of Australia in search of work may find themselves stuck in their new home town, unable to leave with the children. 

The Family Court has ruled that new shared-parenting laws, brought in by the Howard government in 2006, mean that the right of a child to have a relationship with both parents trumps the right of a mother to return to her home state, even if she has lived in the new location for less than a year. 

In the most recent case, the court ruled that a 34-year-old mother could not leave an "isolated" town in northwest Queensland with her five-year-old daughter after her marriage broke down, because it would rupture the close relationship the girl had with her father. 

The case has prompted concern among family law experts that the shared-parenting law is effectively forcing people "back into failed relationships". 

Elspeth McInnes, a researcher in family law at the University of South Australia, cited research by the Family Law Councilthat suggested the right of women to relocate after divorce had essentially been lost, under the amendments to the Family Law Act. 

• 
  Duped dad wins custody of boyPerth Now, 19 May 2009
• Mother jailed for denying dad accessThe Australian, 5 May 2009
• Fathers fight backThe Australian, 2 Apr 2009
• Fathers praise access lawThe Australian, 1 Apr 2009
• Time's up, love cheats to be stripped bareNEWS.com.au, 1 Mar 2009

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Hooray!!!! At last. some common sense. I have been separated for 7 years and have a beautiful daughter in similar circumstances. I am also an Engineer. I pay a LOT of child support ...

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"Previously, judges were prepared to consider the idea that women or mums could go where there is extended family support for them and their children," Ms McInnes told The Australian. 

The mother in the northwest Queensland case, known in court transcripts as Mrs Rosa, got married in 2000 and had her child in 2002. 

She lived with her husband in Sydney until 2007, when he got a job as a mining engineer in a remote part of Queensland. The town is not named in the transcript, but is described as "isolated". 

The Rosas moved up as a family, but after eight months, the husband told the wife that the marriage was over, put her possessions in boxes, and put them on the deck. 

Mrs Rosa, 34, took their daughter back to her mother's house in Sydney but the father petitioned the Family Court for their return, saying he wanted to maintain a relationship with his child. 

During court proceedings, the mother argued that the father could quit his job and return to Sydney and share custody of their daughter in their home town. 

He declined, saying his job had become important and was "interesting". 

The court ruled that the mother could not leave northwest Queensland with the child. She argued that she was isolated and impoverished. She lives in a caravan, because it is the only accommodation she can afford. She appealed to the Full Court of the Family Court, which upheld the decision on May 15. 

The federal magistrate said the mother's plan to move would have a "most serious and detrimental effect upon the very close and important relationship that exists (between the daughter and her Dad)". 

Family law academic Barbara Biggs said: "It's a dreadful situation, to force a woman to live in a town where she has no family and no work, and to say that's the only way the child can be raised."

Read more on this story at The Australian