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Just goes to show you that politicians cannot be trusted, as they will say and do almost anything to get elected.

No reasonable person could disagree with any the comments in this article. Not being aware of the detail of the imminent changes to the law, it seems as though it fits into the category of ‘ just another mistake by the government’, detached as they appear to be from reality in any form. Without listing them all, limited as one is by word numbers, this appears to be just one more.

As for Gillard's predilections, her background and personal life would indicate quite clearly that she has no interest in, or intends to do anything about the problem referred to in this article, her world being so limited and detached, living as she does in what can only be said is a strange, on the surface 'convenient' relationship, with her dislike for males perhaps indicated by that relationship alone.

Perhaps the acceptable standards of days past had more merit than we thought. We now see a Prime Minister of a country like Australia being party to such practices designed to fool the public into thinking that there is something normal about her contrived circumstances which, when you add up all the 'unusual' activities of this strange woman, clearly indicate that her contact with any aspect of reality has been just a passing experience. And it shows, daily.

Therefore, one can assume that she hasn't the slightest interest in the welfare of fathers? Her actions show clearly that males and their problems with children or families, are not on her 'to do' shopping list. She really couldn't care less.

One’s background as a child, when values are created or one’s lifestyle since those early years, are the determinants as to a person’s values. When there is no category that adequately describes where a person fits into society peopled by the most common heterosexual relationships or same sex relationships, both equally normal (or should be In a decent, fair-minded world), it is not possible to expect understanding about people and their problems.

To want to do something decent for laws that are wrong, one has to care.

..We appear to be living in a period where children born into a family become the future impediment to survival of the relationship. The simple solution to the unfair treatment of Fathers and present day family law court outcomes, is to resist the temptation to have children at all.

...We live in times where the unequal influence of the pro-homosexual Greens party rules the day; where the pro-feminist Julia Gillard gladly “Locks In” compliantly behind the homosexual lobby, suffocating the life out of Australian culture, which had in the past, a natural predominance in law of “FAMILY” protection.

...The family as we knew it is dead in the water; a direct correlation to the increase in the debauched influence of homosexuals in our society. Thanks Bob, thanks Julia, both leaders of the “Queer” brigade: the sooner they stuff-off out of our lives the better for the continued "good future" of Australian society generally!

Gillard's attitude towards fathers and families was not only predictable, but predicted, by myself among many others.

It is tempting to say that those fathers who voted for Gillard, surely knowing her agenda, and will now suffer from this anti-family, father-hating woman's assault have only themselves to blame, but unfortunately the biggest harm will be to the children, and hence society in general.

Nothing surprises me any more from the Gillard/Brown government. Stumbling from bad to worse and leaving a societal wreckage that will takes years to recover from.

I get so angry reading about the gross unfairness that the law now metes out to estranged dads. How can any fair-minded person, let alone someone regularly involved in law-making and the justice system, not see the one-sided nature of the current laws?

Why is motherhood "sacred" but fatherhood is ridiculed or at best downplayed, to the extent that fathers are deemed "unnecessary" (in the case of lesbian couples raising children without the input of a father)!?

The sooner the current government falls apart or is voted out, the better. Besides the ethical vacuum that is the Labor Party, it has clearly shown that forming a minority government with radical, self-serving Greens has been a disaster.

Whilst the Greens maintain pursuit of their minority-focussed agendas, our attention will continue to be side-tracked from the more important issues facing our country.

And what more important issues than the family, the value of strong marriages, a fairer legal system for families and raising happy, well-adjusted children?

Unfortunately the Howard Liberal's are not really that much better, in the use of smoke and mirrors.