Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference

Falsely accused

– Avi Yemini on why our conference is so essential.

Bettina Arndt, Aug 29, 2024

There’s great excitement here, now that we have reached the final few days before our conference next Saturday. It looks like we will have over 200 people attending – a large, lively crowd for this important event.

We were delighted with this last-minute interview with Avi Yemini from Rebel News, talking to me about his own experiences of false allegations, which are very relevant to the conference. Avi is one of the very few well-known men in Australia to speak out about the devastating impact of having false domestic violence allegations used to try to stop him seeing his children.

So, here is a man with skin in the game and it is wonderful that he has decided to live stream the conference on Rebel News.

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Feminism has ruined academia

The Feminisation of Academia

Louise Perry – YouTube Maiden, Mother Matriarch – discusses current academia with Amy Wax, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy is both a legal scholar and medical scholar, with dual specialties in both neurology and social welfare law.

This is an insightful interview which deserves close listening. I have only one point to highlight here. Professor Wax wonders why male academics surrendered so willingly to the feminist takeover of academia. Was it weakness, cowardice, or complicity? Perhaps it’s more straightforward than that. Perhaps the character of masculinity had something to do with it.

Exposing the feminist enemy

Coincidentally, the comment below from Bettina Arndt’s substack arrived today. There is reference to Micaela Cronin’s man-hating rant (see previous comment).

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Movember is a fake

– New plans to fight back and properly support men

Bettina Arndt, Aug 22, 2024

How do Australian men get out of bed every morning? I just can’t imagine how men cope with the endless vilification, the constant betrayals by those in power.  

This week we saw another example of men being conned. Every year in this country many thousands of men grow moustaches in November, fondly imagining that they do this to raise money for men’s health.

Don’t kid yourself. Movember, the organisation roping in the millions of dollars from these poor suckers, has always sold men out by avoiding controversial issues and pandering to the feminist narrative. They run suicide prevention programmes, for instance, which studiously avoid any mention of what our Australian Bureau of Statistics names as one of the major causes of male suicide – relationship breakdown.

Now Movember is handing over $3.2 million of the money raised by these men to the male-bashing Albanese Government “to help young men and boys foster healthy, respectful relationships as part of efforts to end gender-based violence.”

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A tyranny of hysterical man-hatred

Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin presented (21 August) a report on Australia’s domestic violence to an audience of sympathetic media feminists at the National Press Club.

I will provide two media reports on Commissar Cronin’s report to lay out the main points. The first (below) is from news.com.au. The second (following) will be from the ABC.

Cronin’s hysterical (emotional, not funny) rant against men regurgitates all the usual accusations against men in cases of ‘domestic violence’ which at least should be called domestic conflict. The correct title should be couple conflict. There is never just one person in couple conflict – to state the obvious.

For Cronin and her feelingly sympathetic feminist audience, the man is always the perpetrator, and the woman is always the victim – the eternal victim. The woman never does anything to provoke conflict. Oh no, never.

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The (unfair) power of women’s tears

Calling a Moratorium on Women’s Tears: How Women Use the Accountability Gap to Manipulate Men and Why Men Must Resist It

By Janice Fiamengo

My subject is the problem of women’s tears. I argue that the exploitation of female tears creates an accountability gap in our societies; I’ve decided to use that phrase, accountability gap, rather than my original damseling, which describes something more specific.

My contention is that most feminist laws, policies, and social movements—whether MeToo, rape shield laws, the biased family court system, sexual harassment policies in the workplace, or the feminization of the professions—all these and more find their roots to some extent or other in women’s tears and our difficulty in resisting them. So, this is a call to resistance.

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The Presumption of Innocence Conference

Zali’s back for Lehrmann’s hat

Fireworks promised at Presumption of Innocence conference

Bettina Arndt Jul 26, 2024

Just a short news item….

Justice Michael Lee in his defamation judgement attracted much attention with his pronouncement that, “Having  escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.” This smug comment was naturally greeted with glee by the salivating media, who revelled in Lee’s harsh decision to declare Lehrmann a rapist (on the balance of probabilities).  

Well, now Zali’s coming back for his hat! The colourful Sydney criminal lawyer Zali Burrows has announced she is presenting Bruce Lehrmann in his appeal. She’s quite a reputation for handling tough, high-profile cases.

But the really exciting news is Zali is now one of the speakers at our Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference, to be held on August 31.

This promises to be a very lively session. Zali has called her talk – “The verdict goes to… the best actress.”

The frank-talking woman is keen to expose how feminist ideology is influencing our justice system, with complainants routinely referred to as “victims” and police investigations seen as irrelevant as women’s statements are deemed sufficient evidence to proceed to trial.  She will speak for many criminal lawyers who are alarmed by what’s happening. She’s a rare breed, with the courage to tell it as it is.

We’re updating the program – see the latest draft here. Details of some key speakers are being withheld and therw will be talks that aren’t live-streamed. Given the sensitive nature of some of the revelations at the conference, certain speakers need to avoid the hostile media attention that comes with appearing online.

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“Misogyny” is now terrorism in Britain

It had to come and likely will get worse. Feminists have their claws into every part of our slowly collapsing western society. What is happening in Britain is on its way to Australia. (Postscript: It has arrived. See my comments above on Australia’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin above)

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The feminist, leftist British government is cracking down on free thinking men.

I don’t agree with everything said in this video. It’s of chief interest because it details the endless ridicule, insults, torment, abuse, mockery and misrepresentation men face daily.

Facts about homicide in Australia

The online magazine QUILLETTE has posted a detailed breakup of statistics on homicide in Australia. I have quoted the base figures about female murders as compared with male murders from The Australian Bureau of Statistics before. Around two-thirds of murder victims are male, the rest female. These figures give lie to the hysterical demonstrations about ‘femicide’.

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The Truth About Australia’s “Domestic Violence Crisis”

Quillette, 13 August 2024

Australia is among the least violent countries in the world. There are things we should do to make women safer, but we should not succumb to a crisis narrative.