p9: CEDAW insists that religious freedom and democratic rights must be curtailed when disagree with their agenda…expresses open hostility to the free exercise of religion, reporting that “in all countries, the most significant factors inhibiting women’s ability to participate in public life have been the cultural framework of values and religious beliefs”.

If a nation's religious rules, traditions, and customs conflict with the CEDAW’s view of women's rights, that nation must find new religious rules, traditions, and customs.

And the battle against men, male privilege, requires special efforts to guarantee equal results in the workplace and in government.

Article 4 reads "Temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women shall not be considered discrimination." This is interpreted as mandating "affirmative action(reverse discrimination), preferential treatment or quota systems to advance women's integration into education, the economy, politics and employment."

Feminists can use this provision to bring about "gender laws” – family law, special domestic violence courts, rape, sexual harassment - “gender-fair budgets", state-mandated quotas for gender-balanced legislatures. Women's groups can litigate all areas of Australian life that fail to evince statistical parity between the sexes.

This government is sexist. Men are being persecuted under guise of equality.

Too much common sense, Mr. Marsh. You'll never cut it with the politically correct crowd!

A child's need for a father and a mother is dictated by human biology. Mr. Marsh does little more than state and apply the obvious. It amazes me that Warwick's opponents could look past such a fundamental aspect of humanity!

>>Men are being persecuted under guise of equality.<<

Really? Because I'm a man and I've never felt that I was being persecuted for it. When you say men, do you actually mean big sooky whingers who think the whole world is out to get them and who really need to mix a spoonful of cement into their quiche and harden the firetruck up? Because that's not the type of people I think of as men: at least not real men.

Cheers,

Tony

Newest user to OnLine Opinion and first post all in one day – congratulations Sven that might be a record… unless connie2 and Michael GO (currently seven and eight on the list) contest it. Anyway, welcome.

So is it your point that Warwick Marsh's absent father upbringing caused him to have a miserable failure of a life?

Tony Lavis: No one with even a sense of shame or smarts would come out with that stupid comment. Now wipe that froth off your mouth, then try to make a case … and what is your hand doing on your crotch there?

Our radical feminist controlled Government’s social policy for men is encapsulated in “The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children [not men]”, namely, to abolish the institutional source of male privilege — the patriarchal family - and criminalise & impoverish its main rivals: fathers.

It is a thinly veiled version of the American VAWA conceived as a way to extract enormous sums of money to be diverted into funding the political arm of the women's movement.

Part of this Plan to reduce contact between fathers and children was legislated in the family violence (sole custody) amendments to the Family Law Act guillotined through the Senate in November of last year.

- Remove “Pro-contact” emphasis in court for fathers and their children
- shift emphasis to permanently ending a father's parental rights on suspicion of domestic violence
- Expanded and enhanced use of No Contact/Protection Orders for women
- Specialized Domestic Violence Courts with Judges who have specialized training
- new definition of rape requiring proof of consent
- Shifting burden of proof to the accused for cases domestic or sexual violence cases
- Formation of programs to change or alter the idea of masculinity, especially for children and young boys

Why?
Children are the levers for social change. Fatherless children become vulnerable putty in the indoctrinating hands of ideological zealots.

How?
The National DV Plan does violence to the rule of law. Violence is redefined to include dirty looks, name calling, or simply the “intuition” (imagination) of a woman that the accused is thinking ill thoughts.

Accusers need provide no proof and are not held accountable for lying. The accused can and are summarily jailed, denied access to their children, and put under restraining orders on nothing more than the say-so of a woman

The Family Violence amendments & National DV Plan takes “he said” out of “he said, she said” and removes all penalties for lying.

A women who may very well be acting out of anger, a desire to retain marital property or sole custody of their children, or just plain whimsy can legally seize a man's house, assets, children & future income and silence any objections with an interim protection order obtained in an ex-parte three minute hearing which the man is not even aware of.

Men in Australia will literally cease being equal partners with women in the eyes of the law.

Western democracies aren't supposed to pass laws like these, western democracies are supposed to be the ones who cherish equal protection and equal access.

Women of the ALP responsible for this utter madness
Jenny Macklin
Tanya Plibersek
SenatorTrish Crossin
Nicola Roxon
Catherine King
Maria Vamvakinou
Kate Ellis
Senator Claire Moore
Senator Jan McLucas
Senator Julie Collins
Senator Catryna Bilyk
Senator Louise Pratt

The civil rights of millions of Australian men now hang in the balance

How is it that radical feminist ideals, pushed by a handful of zealots, get so easily incorporated into a major government sponsored plan? How is it that almost every Australian media outlet would rather act like cowards and refuse to even question the most basic tenets of a National Plan, despite the fact that it will disenfranchise half the population?

Sign the F4E "Strength in Numbers" Register now to oppose this social engineering of family and legal persecution of men.

It's free and nothing is required of you, but every person who signs will help us send a loud message to Canberra that the silent majority have numbers, we want to share in the parenting of our children, we will not be persecuted by the National DV Plan's gender laws, we will not have our life savings plundered by the lawyers union, we will preference family friendly politicians and vote out Emily's list extremists, we have a voice, and we intend to use it!
http://www.fathers4equality-australia.org/equalparenting/f4eregistration.nsf/person?OpenForm