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Australia, Culture, Feminism, Law, Men, Radicalism

The Family Law Act – ‘promoting great wickedness’

Former Family Court Judge spills the beans

– about how feminism has captured the Family Court system

Bettina Arndt, Apr 01, 2025

“The Family Court system is in enormous trouble.” That’s a momentous statement given that the speaker, Adelaide barrister Stuart Lindsay, is a former Family Court judge. But there’s much more… This experienced insider blames the parlous state of this vital institution on a campaign led by the Labor party to “promote a particular pronounced feminist ideology in the Family Law Act.”

Lindsay spent ten years, from 2004-2014, working as a judge in the Federal Circuit court dealing mainly with family court matters. He’s now back working as special counsel for a local firm, on the coalface of a system he sees as being in dire straits.

He’s been right there, witnessing the destructive impact of feminist ideology infiltrating the family law system, destroying the lives of so many ordinary families. Lindsay explains the big push started with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, but Kevin Rudd was right on board, as successive Labor governments have “tried to ensure judges provide for right outcomes in accordance with the invariably feminist ideology.”

The play sheet at the heart of this ideology is domestic violence, namely the nonsensical feminist claim that all other considerations regarding the best interests of children must be swept aside by the need to protect youngsters from dangerous dads. This incentivises false allegations of violence since they give women immense power throughout the family law process.

During my conversation with him it was utterly fascinating to hear this former judicial officer describing what it was like being on the receiving end of feminist efforts to insert domestic violence into every part of the Family Law Act, requiring judges to endlessly “dip their lid to this particular notion.”

Judges must “bend the knee and give recognition to these political declarations,” says Lindsay, even though, when proper evidence is presented to the court, many domestic violence allegations are withdrawn or fall apart. But by then, the allegations have often been successfully used to have fathers removed from the home and denied contact with children; with the accuser given endless advantages, including financial benefits when it comes to negotiating her way through the system.

The consequences have been dire. “The Family Law Act has promoted great wickedness throughout Australian society for 50 years,” declared Stuart Lindsay.

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Culture, Feminism, Media, Radicalism

WOMEN ARE INCLINED TO RADICALISM

It’s there practically every day on news reports – women, especially young women, in the frontline of radical causes, daring to try security and established authority far more openly than men. Men know they will be swiftly dealt with if they showed the same hysterical audacity. Society naturally tolerates women behaving badly, especially young nubile women. Janice Fiamengo makes the point below together with the range of man-hating actions feminists unblushingly indulge in.

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Women like J.K. Rowling Will Not Free Us from Gender Ideology

Only men of courage can do it, and it’s not clear they will

JANICE FIAMENGO APR 18, 2024

The fruits of gender ideology are plain for all to see: an assault on masculinity and marriage; fathers cut off from their children; a growing rift between the sexes; the denial of biological reality; children indoctrinated to seek hormone treatments and surgeries; and the perversion of language and law. A recent study shows women, but not men, favoring radical social policies and gender ideology. Yet it is still socially unacceptable to criticize the core dogma—feminism—that started us on this path or to observe that men are generally better suited to lead our societies than women.

We’ve heard a lot lately about the courage of children’s book author J.K. Rowling, who has taken on the hate speech law of her homeland, Scotland, and pushed the government to admit it to be unenforceable—at least against a woman of her stature. Rowling deserves the applause she is currently receiving for her boldness.

But Rowling is not the leader we need in current battles over free speech and sex realism. Like many prominent women, she is an enormously resentful feminist ideologue who trades in female privilege while pretending that women are everywhere in chains. While she rightly objects to the possibility that a woman could be charged with a hate crime for stating biological fact, she is preoccupied with so-called hatred against women, claiming bizarrely of gender-neutral phrasing such as “persons who menstruate” that “for those of us who’ve had degrading slurs spat at us by violent men, [such language is] not neutral, it’s hostile and alienating.” This is poor-me emotionalism and anti-male grandstanding pretending to argumentative coherence.

Rowling’s reflex hostility to men has led her to lash out at even obvious allies. She publicly disparaged Matt Walsh, conservative political activist and star of the documentary What Is a Woman, alleging that “He’s no more on my side than the ‘shut up or we’ll bomb you’ charmers who cloak their misogyny in a pretty pink and blue flag.” This absurd exaggeration, which fails to distinguish between a man who makes sense and one who makes deranged threats, showcases the feminist muddle of Rowling’s thinking.

She objects to trans ideology, it turns out, not primarily because it is false to biological reality—despite evoking the truth of biological sex when useful—but because it involves men accessing women’s spaces and identities. For her, the transgender phenomenon is not about gender dysphoria or sexual fetish—nor 50 years of bigotry and discrimination against men—but about misogyny, her go-to explanation. Walsh too, she implies, is a misogynist despite his desire to protect women.

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Australia, Culture, Feminism, Law, Radicalism

The adoration of Kali – Labor’s feminist warrior

If you’re a man in Australia at this time in history, you have a choice. Learn to fight back or suffer a place on Kali’s garland of severed heads.

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Feminism’s workplace gulags

– How the former Sex Discrimination Commissioner tightened the screws on men at work.

BETTINA ARNDT 18 JAN 2024

Kate Jenkins may have retired from her job as Sex Discrimination Commissioner, but she’s done a brilliant job in ensuring her future employment. Late last year she was boasting on Instagram about her masterstroke:

“Having recommended the new positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment, sex discrimination and other unlawful conduct, I’m now focused on helping employers to meet this duty,” she announced cheerfully.

She’s quite shameless in spruiking masterclasses for teaching corporate boards and executive teams to toe the line, asking, “Who best to fast track your compliance than the people who wrote Respect@Work?”

Respect@Work was the report responsible for pushing all this into workplaces. Jenkins and her team create a fiction of workplaces as cesspits of groping men intent on keeping women in their lowly place. The Jenkins team shifted the goal posts to include discrimination rather than just harassment and then redefined sexual harassment as “gender-based violence,” skilfully bringing the huge domestic violence industry on board. They then came up with 55 recommendations they claim would put things right.

That was back in 2020 and the Morrison government, under siege from the Higgins et al claims of their “women’s problem”, dutifully gave the nod to most of them, only baulking at the really crazy stuff.  

But along came Labor’s white knight, Attorney-General Dreyfus, who has shown great enthusiasm for tilting the scales of justice against men – the Family Law Bill being a case in point.  Making life impossible for the  corporate sector is an extra bonus – hence he embraced all the recommendations including the “positive duty” requirement that the former government had rejected and pushed them into law with great alacrity.

What is this positive duty all about? Well, it places an onus on employers to “take reasonable and proportionate measures” to wipe out sex discrimination and harassment in their workplaces. No tall order, eh?

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Australia, Law, Radicalism

Men’s welfare victim of merciless feminist ideology

A recent article in The Australian newspaper had the headline MEN’S WELFARE AT THE MERCY OF FEMINIST IDEOLOGY. True that it is, a more accurate headline could have been MEN’S WELFARE VICTIM OF MERCILESS FEMINIST IDEOLOGY.

For most feminists, men are of no account in the furthering of their ideological goals. And for a few of psychopathic mentality, no cruelty in dealing with men is enough. That Australian article opened with the following paragraph:

“According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, our male suicide rate is overall three to four times higher than the female rate, and mainly involves men in mid-life. These are the major predictive facts about suicide: being male; being divorced, widowed or separated; living alone; being unemployed.”

One could add: being the victim of Australia’s Family Law Act, a legal instrument composed by feminists and agreed to by emasculated men.

Instead of falling into a state of depression, men have to do what the Left has always done: organize. For example, with policies that openly discriminate against men in work, it must be that all bets are off.

If laws are explictily disciminatory against men, in favour of women, men must apply their ingenuity to work out ways to get around the law. Men are now a long way behind, but a start must be made.

Those men in a position to act on behalf of men must act – or bear the contempt of their fellows for their cowardice.

Australia, Culture, Feminism, Law, Media, Radicalism

Man-hatred drives feminist law reform

Lynching of men is our national sport

BETTINA ARNDT 11 NOV 2023

Pauline Hanson spoke in the Senate this week, using parliamentary privilege to talk about the latest Brittany Higgins Wannabe – the Toowomba woman who claims Bruce Lehrmann had sex with her twice without permission to forego a condom. Most of our mainstream media refuses to publish any information challenging this woman’s version of events.

She ended her written speech in classic Hanson style, with various telling comments: “Public lynching of men has become our national sport.”

“I don’t know the truth, only two people do, but if it comes down to the use of a condom it’s no one’s business but theirs.”

“If you are not happy, don’t have sex. I would advise celibacy or join a nunnery.”

Naturally our press gallery chose to ignore her interesting pronouncements.

Meanwhile, I am heading to Canberra for an important event. For two days next week the lawns of Parliament House will feature 2,500 empty shoes, one shoe for each of the men and boys who die in this country each year through suicide. This is largely the inspiration of one bloke, Paul Withall, who started the Zero Suicide Community Awareness program which sponsors this powerful memorial event.

This year he has persuaded a bunch of politicians to speak next Thursday, Nov 16. Then, on Sunday Nov 19 – International Men’s Day – there’s a public event featuring mainly speakers with grassroots experience on how these suicides impact families.

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