Archive for the ‘Lone Fathers Association Australia’ Category
Joining The Dots
Patrick wrote about the links between the blackshirts and SPCA, but there is even more than meets the eye. The Shared Parenting Council are linked to many organisations. Some reputable and others on the fringe of extremism, a precursor to terror.
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Simon <email.hunt@gmail.com>To: Executive Secretary – Shared Parenting Council of Australia <secretariat@spca.org.au>
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Sent: Sunday, 3 May, 2009 12:34:17 PM
Subject: [fathers4equality] Re: Press release
The SPCA is planning a series of press release about the deteriorating position we find ourselves in with respect to Domestic Violence and any watering down of the current FLAct.
Have you a statement or have any of your groups statements we can quote in relation to the following news items
http://www.familyla wwebguide. com.au/news/ pg/news/view/ 636/index. php&filter=
In the published guide there is no mention of how they court is to deal with unproven allegations or in other words “false allegations”
http://www.familyla wwebguide. com.au/news/ pg/news/view/ 635/index. php&filter=1
and
http://www.familyla wwebguide. com.au/news/ pg/news/view/ 631/index. php&filter=1
and
The Chief Justice comments today
Lone Fathers channelled its resources intosupporting a 40-year-old Brisbane man, Keith Shew,who took the Brisbane Domestic Violence ResourceCentre (DVRC) to the HREOC, alleging the centre haddiscriminated against him after his wife had beaten himwith a vacuum cleaner.Shew, who arrived at a Brisbane court seeking arestraining order against his wife, was denied accesslast year to a safe room occupied by women seekingrestraining orders—one of whom was Mrs Shew—by DVRC staff suspicious of his motives. “Mr Shewwas not allowed into the safe room because his wifewas sheltering from him inside”, explained the centre’schair, Betty Taylor.
In January, HREOC dismissed Shew’s charges.Shew and Lone Fathers were incensed. Shew blitzedradio, TV and the newspapers, threatening to take hiscase to the United Nations. “I feel someone has to makea stand and tell government that men are the silentvictims of domestic violence”, Shew declared outsidethe commission in January.Shew and Lone Fathers’ ardour was somewhatdampened when an investigative journalist fromBrisbane’s Courier-Mail unearthed police recordswhich revealed that Shew had a long criminal record,including eight convictions for assault, receiving stolengoods and weapons offences.”
“In 1997, when a mother was granted leave to movefrom Queensland to Victoria with her daughters, theLone Fathers Association spokesperson responded bysaying:. . . violence would result, and judges would haveblood on their hands.”
Williams goes to extremes in his advocacy for male victims of domestic violence. In 2006, he was a co-signatory of a response to “the anti-male UN report on ‘Violence against women’”, which argued that reporting of domestic violence was biased against men, including several claims that women are greater perpetrators of domestic violence than men”
The Shared Parenting Council of Australia is on the lobbyist register holding Geoffrey Green as director. Geoffrey Green has an interesting history. In 2007, he was investigated by the AFP for misuse of electoral funds. Apparently he received his marching orders in 2008.