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Life Changing Injury
About
"..But no one slept that night. All they could think of was how terribly lonely I must have felt. You see, loneliness was something my friends understood -- all too well." -- the voice of the dead narrator on Desperate Housewives
This blog began a few months after the surgery which allows me to walk now. I began this blog in an effort to document my struggles to deal with a life-changing injury: in June 2002, my right hip swelled, cutting off the blood flow down my leg which caused the main vein to swell to twice its normal size. Over the following weekend, the vein filled with a huge blood clot.
That was only the beginning. My hip joint deteriorated quickly over the next two years, and my relationship deteriorated even more quickly because I was involved with a disappointed, abusive woman. Her abuse increased as I became ever more unable to move, or sit, or stand.
She used the Intervention Order process in Victoria as a tool for extortion, and further abuse.
The blog begins in a terribly confused and frustrated time in my life. I suffered months of aggravated depression, anxiety attacks that went on for weeks. And as a result became involved in the struggle for equality before the law for men.
My injuries were not just physical.
Voices of Australia - Blogs
The voices of citizen journalism committed to equality before the law, men, and families.
- Australian Divorce blog
- Presigious Chronicals emag
- Vox Nova: The Failure of Family Policy
- I believe one of the reasons my ex-partner wishes me to have minimal time with my son is simply as a punishment, an act of malice.
- Mums and Dads against sole custody
- The Family Court Phenomenon is an attempt to delve into the phenomenon of the Family Court and how control over the access parents would otherwise have to their children brings out the worst in peoples characters
- My story as told as it happens. To bring to peoples attention how Mothers can abuse their children by alienating them from their father and get away with it. Psychologists, court mediators, the media and Judges need to see this for what it is - abuse
- Paternity Fraud Australia Akiva Quinn has begun a blog to track the developments occurring from the Liam McGill case.
- Media Dragon is one of the most popular Australia blogs.
- ifeminists...the home for individualist feminism on the net.
- Pooks Mill Feminists are sexual terrorists..
- In search of Fatherhood In many ways -- and for many reasons -- Fatherhood transcends the boundaries of geography, religion, politics, culture, economics, language and ethnicity. A Child is the link that connects one Man to another.
- A not-so-politic look at Australian politics
- Heretical Sex - A Leftist-leaning look at feminism and other social topics. Great background reading for "progressive" thinkers.
- Feminized Australian Women Suck We have also seen Prue Goward, our very own sexist commissioner and others from the Department of Women skirmishing in order to touch the tainted rags of visiting American feminists while wallowing in funds denied to education and health care for the rest of Australia.
- Location: Australia I once did admire women greatly, right up until the feminasties made it impossible.
- Kitten News discusses men, women, politics, the sex-war, social issues, governance, law and order and any other bloody thing it likes too.
- ozpolitics blog coupled with the Oz Politics Info site, an place for informative contemporary and general information about Australian politics
- the road to surfdom australian issues
- Inchoate
- The week ahead 1 - Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill - UPDATED » The Bartlett Diaries
- Ambit Gambit: Parkinson's Laws - Recommendation 23
- ozpolitics.info
- Make a clean break - Planning - Money - Business - Home - smh.com.au
- Inchoate
- The Age Blogs: Your Say / Family law changes Archives
- Men's Confraternity
- The Age Blogs: Your Say / Family law changes Archives
- The autistic school of management
- Brian's Blog
- Industry links
- On Line Opinion - Australia's e-journal of social and political debate
- Bill pushes equal custody - National - The Age theage.com.au
- Feminista - The Journal of Feminist Reconstruction
Voices of Australia - Websites
There is a large growing network to support men and families in Australia. Someone should let the government know.
- Paternity Fraud Australia In March 2000, Liam Magill of Melbourne, Australia, discovered that 2 of the 3 children born during his marriage were not his biological offspring.
- beyondblue: the Australian national depression initiative
- Manhood Online Men for a better world
- The Memucan Institute of Mens Studies MIOMS exists to promote the virtues of traditional roles for men and women, and to demonstrate their value to society. We expose the deficiencies of equal opportunities, and of the threat this poses to the stability of family life and by extension society as a whole. Men and women are in equal in status, and before the law. Equality in status does not imply sameness of purpose or function.>
- Shared Parenting Council of Australia has researchers, legal advisors and counsellors as part of our team and through our affiliate organisations can offer genuine assistance to individuals and families in crisis.
- Family Law Reform, NSW is a non-profit, non-political, non-denominational, self-help organisation working together towards a sensible family law reform in order to assist people with Family Law matters. We are an affiliate of The Shared Parenting Council of Australia
- What we do Dads in Distress audio file
- MEN SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION Heartfelt and professional videos by Dr Viv Roberts from New Zealand
- The Lone Fathers Association of Australia (LFAA) has been in operation at the National level since 1975 and now operates a branch network that has earned a national reputation with international standing for promoting fairness, equity and the need for improved justice in Family Law.
- Mens Confraternity from Perth
- Fathers 4 Equality website
- MRA - Mens Rights Agency is doing very constructive and important work in Brisbane
- Bumper stickers: Family Law is broken -- Kids need both parents
- RIGHTS and WRONG exposes some absolutely painful truths about lawyers and the courts
- Dads In Distress, Australia
- Joint Parenting Organization
- Dads on the air is syndicated radio from Sydney
- The Australian Institute newsletters and articles offer insights into many viewpoints on controversial government policies.
Links
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- This site contains a preview of my OpEd articles in the works and some thoughts about life in general. It also contains information for any parent who has lost custody of their children due to corrupt and illegal family law rulings. United we can make the changes necessary to protect children from legal abuse.
- Parental Alienation Awareness
- Welcome to ParentingTime.net. This is the home of OPTIMALâ¢, the Online Parenting Time Information Manager and Access Log.
- Dads who fought back, the film They are two average guys who won't give up.Two fathers are struggling to do something not all divorced men can do: be involved in the lives of their children. Some argue that the deck is stacked against them, and the courts and legal system favour mothers. Others blame a system buckling from the weight of ready divorce and in-fighting..
- Childrens Rights Council The Childrenâs Rights Council (CRC) is an internationally recognized leader serving divorced, never-married and extended families and at-risk youth for more than 20 years.
- Emily Rose Hindle
- ANCPR blog Promoting Fathers' and Non-custodial Mothers' Rights
- RADAR Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
- Custody Reform Organization We are a group COMMITTED to fairness in the child custody process
- How influence is peddled
- Parental alienation is a problem that most people don't know about. It is child abuse and needs to be stopped.
- Twenty-seven organizations across the country (US) co-signed a Resolution Regarding the Violence Against Women Act.
Mens Issues
"Be a man!"?
- Equality in status does not imply sameness of purpose or function.
- The Bastards Bible - Weâre Bastards, of course, because weâre tired of being sorry.
- Manhood Online We invite you to tell us how your father got it right.
- Mens Hour blog a chronical of Agitprop
- Domestic Violence and the Law a prominent attorney explains the legal climate surrounding domestic violence and abuse.
- Don't make her mad It can be as simple as "hogging the remote" or as incendiary as cheating. This site advises men against "acting out" toward her in any way, because that could give her all the excuse she needs to fabricate an allegation.
Mental Health
37 men step in front of trains each month, on average, according to an internal CONNEX report.
In John Howard's words in Oct 2006: "We always saw it as just weakness."
- Since 1995, Internet Mental Health has provided information on mental health free-of-charge.
- The Family of Men It's more manly to ask for help
- Dr Irene's Verbal Abuse (site) Learn to recognize verbal abuse and understand what to do about it!
- Male Depression Men helping men with mood disorders
- Netvibes
- No Reproductive Rights in Insect "Police States," Study Finds
- GetUp! - Action For Australia - www.getup.org.au
- John Quiggin » Blog Archive » The mental health crisis
- The Australian Caroline Overington Blog
- Online Therapy, Counselling & Mental Health Resources from CounsellingResource.com
- Mental Health Resources September 2005 Archive
- JANEâS MENTAL HEALTH SOURCE PAGE » Blog Archive » Self-Harm in Australia
- Australian Health Information Technology
- Comic book bid to curb teen self-harm - National - smh.com.au
- beyondblue: the Australian national depression initiative
- Streetwize Process
Lawyers for Change
Yes, there are ethical lawyers. Just too damned few of them.
- Our vision is of a profession that really makes a difference in society, that makes a stand for forging relationships (whether business or personal), that heals wounds and brings wisdom and experience that makes us indispensable in all sectors of society: lawyers offering solutions rather than problems, getting people to be responsible rather than full of blame. In this way, our clients and society will experience us as contributors and our potential will be fulfilled."
- Overlawyered dot com on Australian legal events "Disillusioned by a growing list of rules imposed by recruiting agencies and shopping centres to guard against litigation, men who have brought smiles to the faces of thousands of young West Australians for decades are reluctantly deciding to call it quits."
Family Courts of Australia
The Family Courts are "different". That means too often they don't have to follow the rules.
- Family Court Secrets in Australia
- Wells Street in central London is home to the country's only dedicated Family Court. For the first time the court has lifted its blanket ban on reporting and allowed Jenny Cuffe inside.
- Penthouse Australia on the Great Child Support rort
- The enlightened Australian approach to family responsibilities and rights contrasts markedly with the depressingly antediluvian attitude in the United Kingdom..
McKenzie Friends
Have someone in the courtroom with you to help.
- McKenzie Friends Guide to winning the Divorce War Australia
- Self Litigant documentation. The core of the McKenzie Friend process
- Family Court Secrets in Australia
- Self-Represented Litigants Course at MRA Menâs Rights Agency is inviting applications to attend a series of weekly seminars, over 2 to 3 weeks, designed to specifically assist men who wish to represent themselves in Family Court, the Federal Magistrates Court or State Magistrates Court.
Self-Representing Litigants
The courts are out of control. Maybe a little plain personal contact will do them good.
- AustLII- Australasian Legal Information Institute is a necessary resource in understanding Family Law, and preparing a case
- ComLaw ComLaw is an integral part of the Australian Law Online initiative to bring low or no-cost access to the law for the community and is maintained by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.
- Lexis Nexis the expensive high quality source for law and precedents
- Self-Represented Litigants Course at MRA Menâs Rights Agency is inviting applications to attend a series of weekly seminars, over 2 to 3 weeks, designed to specifically assist men who wish to represent themselves in Family Court, the Federal Magistrates Court or State Magistrates Court.
The Other Side
Get to know what radical and victim feminists think.
- Home Truths conference 2004 A generously government-funded gathering to lay out strategies and tactics to promote disinformation against males. Three papers, for example, suggest reducing the male portion of the population of Australia to 10%.
- Sui blog:Sex, religion and politics. A survivor's observations of life in Australia.
- Aus DV Clearinghouse Hate-mongering disinformation against men by the Austrlian government and UNSW
- Challenging Fundamentalisms: A Womens Human Rights Network
- Feminista - The Journal of Feminist Reconstruction
Feminists
Most women, and even most feminists, don't like where Feminism is taking things.
- Feminists for Fathers Teri Stoddard
- Because women are never sexist. So there. The ironic view of (Victim) Feminism
- The Anti-Feminist One of the things that really annoys me about feminists is the way they distort and abuse statistics. They are just as bad, if not worse, than politicians.
- A Woman Against Feminism And For Men's Rights Feminism was a bad idea to begin with, and has evolved into a ravenous monster that eats equal rights for breakfast. It's time people understood the extreme anti-male bias in Western culture before it's too late. We don't have much time left.
- MRA Revolutionary Iâve maintained from the beginning that there are two types of women. Manly FemiNasties, and true Feminine women. FemiNasties, for over 40 years, have used the seductive power of the Dark Side in order to blind and control Feminine women. Real women have been told that to slay their brother is right.
Your Say
Where to say it, and where to get others to say it with you.
- Dads on the Air Forum has excellent analysis and commentary about current events in Australia that affect Fathers' and Family Rights
- Petitions Online provides a free service for collecting signatures.
- Sydney Morning Herald Have your say
- Survey Monkey Free surveys online
- Online Opinion offers a forum for feature articles and comments
About Abuse
The reality of Abuse is that it is an addiction.
- Mental Abuse: Social, Emotional and Psychological Manipulation
- The cycle of Abuse
- Gender Myths blog
- Abusive Brainwashing Techniques
- Erin Pizzy, founder of the modern Womens Shelter movement on the Fathers for Life website
- Prone to Violence by Erin Pizzy was boycotted by radical feminists to such an extent that a search of all libraries in the world that could be accessed from the US Library of Congress through the Inter-Library Network in 1996 revealed a total of 13 listings in the whole World.
- Battered Men The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence 835,000 men battered each year, silent too long ...
- Abusive Relationships Is your relationship abusive?
- Disinformation: DV non-Factoids from the Univ of Michigan
- The Truth about Domestic Violence Charges from a practicing attorney in Florida, where the courts are forcing parents to be responsible for their own actions and their children.
Important Posts
- Manhood Online
- Geoff Holland's Draft Manifesto for Progressive Reform of the Family Court system in Australia
- A View
- Chemically Induced Denial
- Realizing Victim Feminism
- Victim Feminism: Naomi Wolf
- Something very obvious A courtroom is not the place to determine who is the Abuser
Human Rights
- Australian Human and Civil Rights IndexThis index was the first such human rights index set up in Australia some 10 years ago.
- JAIL for Judges is a single-issue national grassroots organization designed to end the rampant and pervasive judicial corruption in the legal system
- Raise your voice For your rights Your freedom
- International Human Rights Instruments
- Disability Awareness Kit::Mental Illness and Psychiatric disability
Yahoo Groups
- News and information for men and separated fathers.
- MRA - Mens Rights Agency on Yahoo
- FemConnexion - Aussie Kiwi Feminist Connection
- NUANCE is an Australian online support group/service for separated and divorced men and fathers.
- Battered Husbands Support Group
- Shattered men The other side of the Abuse issue
- Men's Issues Online MIO is intended to be an impetus to online and offline activism for men's advocates (of both sexes)
Documents on the Net
- Australian Safety Survey Max Ponti points out that the Australian Safety Survey contradicts victim and radical feminists about Violence in Australia
- Mens Rights Agency compilation report on abuse in families in Australia and Internationally
- Australian House of Representatives Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment 2005 (Shared Parental Responsibility)
- What we do Dads in Distress audio file
- A timely case study of one man's ordeal. What follows is an account of laziness, incompetence, deception and hypocrisy in the Family Court of Australia; which some of those involved would surely argue to be âprofound policyâ because, they would say, it was pursued in the âbest interests of the childâ. In this case, however, what seems to have been pursued was the âbest interests of the Courtâ and those involved with it.
- The Family Court's very public opposition to equal parenting time
- The Australian Christian Lobby
- This bibliography examines 189 scholarly investigations: 146 empirical studies and 43 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners.
- Self Litigant documentation. The core of the McKenzie Friend process
- Don't be a Dad
Critical Acclaim!
Let's open up the debate a little bit.
- Ananda Answers A big P psychiatrist that thinks for himself, and documents it.
- Criminal Professor blog member of the Law Professors' Blogs Network
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