Killarney,

Let's get real on this thing. This battle was fought and won back in the 1970s. It was won by your side. It's done. It's over. You seem to be the only ones who don't accept and understand your own victory circa 1974.

We all accept that women should have equal opportunities in life. Now go out and enjoy your rights. What we don't need is yet more paternalist taxpayer funding built on sexist paradigms that women are the weaker sex and need yet never ending taxpayer funds to support interest groups designed to lobby for yet more taxpayer funds.

Women ARE as good as men and they don't need your help.

Onthebeach "Still, the radical feminists would have to find a way of eliminating all men, one supposes."
Wrong OTB, we still need men to help us create the next generation of feminists!
These lucky feminists won't have it as difficult as we do, given that the feminists of today have more say in bringing up the men of tomorrow.

Until the crime of women being assaulted and/or murdered by their 'intimate partners' is treated as gravely as any other assault or murder committed in the wider community, then feminism is nowhere near finished its work....

Suseonline,

Your cultural war has been won. So you waste your time and are hypocritical in dumping it back at the feet of the huge majority of men who never were as you imagined and were and continue to be caring, loving and protective of their families.

You already have the society you want and feminists dominate the policy debate even before it has begun in the parliaments and elsewhere. You have all of the power you ever dreamed about and more. Here is but one example of dozens from the daily media reports, where line of authority from top to bottom is dominated by women, exclusively women in fact,

<Govt spent $565,000 for $6,000 child debt

A FEDERAL government department has spent $565,000 pursuing a father over a disputed $6,000 child support debt.

THE Department of Human Services defends the cost, saying it's all about clarifying a legal principle.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon raised the case during a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Thursday.

The father has spent four years disputing child support agency orders requiring him to pay $6,000 to his ex-wife, he says.

"A fortune is being spent against an unrepresented father," Senator Xenophon said as he quizzed department officials.
The department insisted the case was worth pursuing because it would help it administer the entire child support system.
"This is not just about a $6,000 assessment, it's about a much broader range of issues," department boss Kathryn Campbell said.
One of the reasons for the big cost was that the department was also paying the man's legal costs as it sought "clarity".

The commonwealth won the first round of the dispute, but has now filed a case in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to block the father from receiving key departmental documents.

The department argues legal professional privilege applies to its refusal.

Human Services Minister Marise Payne said she would look into the matter after being asked to ensure the man won't have to face further legal costs.>

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/govt-spent-565000-for-6000-child-debt/story-e6frfku9-1227239849466

You have the power and influence. Now to shoulder the responsibility for the changes you wrought.

Unfortunately, whenever I think of 'un represented' fathers in the family court system, I think of deadbeats who sacked what lawyers they had (state funded or whatever) because they didn't get what they wanted from them. These angry men then try and represent themselves, and wonder why nothing seems to go their way.

Don't give me that cr#p that feminists have won. We never wanted to 'win' anything except equal rights. We still don't have that, and you know it.
Don't you want that for your daughter? I know I do.

I have just read the whole story about Rosie Batty's case, and the courts continually gave that violent lunatic access to his son, even though they granted her a violence restraining order against him.
He couldn't get to her, so he killed their son to get back at her.
He had access to his son right up to the day they both died, so what did they die for?
It is a disgrace!
If a violent unrelated man other than his father threatened the woman and her son, would that have been ignored also?

Equal rights to me as I see it is for women to have the same pay as men, but I want to see them up in gum trees to cut them down if requested, out digging holes in the ground for electricity cables and TV connections,, getting your hands dirty when water mains break in the middle of the road, to get dirt under your fingernails instead of pink polish,there are so many areas where women should be ,but are not, men can do all that women can except have babies, let's be honest all this business of being stuck in the house washing and ironing, getting meals is rubbish, get out mowing the lawn, pruning bushes etc, men will be only too happy to be inside washing the dishes as most do now, equal rights must be equal rights not selective equal rights.

Not a problem ojnab, some women do already do those jobs, but I have rarely seen men getting in there to care for the elderly in nursing homes etc, getting faeces, vomit and urine on their hands? Or cleaning up vomit etc while cleaning hotel rooms and other housecleaning jobs?

The difference between all those filthy jobs is that the mainly males doing all the jobs you mentioned get a truckload more pay for that filthy work than do the mainly women doing the jobs I mentioned.
Now, therein lies the difference....