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Australian 2016 Federal Election: No major party is willing to step up to the...

Readers: This post is a work-in-progress … expect to see it grow and develop substantially between now and the election on 2 July 2016. The three main players in the election campaign are the...

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Women attack first responders yet omitted from ‘awareness’ campaign

“The government is spending more than $1.3 million on an education campaign to remind the public not to treat health workers as punching bags, after 3300 assaults in the past year alone.” (31 March...

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On male-only and women-only spaces

“The course has hosted golf’s prestigious Open championship no less than 16 times in its 125-year history, the backdrop for wins by greats such as Nick Faldo, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. But...

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Discrimination against males in the context of humanitarian agencies/causes

Some time ago I came across the following item in ‘Inside Man‘, a high quality UK publication focussing on men’s issues: Nine out of ten people pictured in charity posters are women (25 September 2014)...

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A useful portrayal of victims of domestic violence … from an unlikely source

The focus of this post is an article entitled ‘There is nowhere for us to go’: Domestic violence happens to men too, by feminist journo Ginger Gorman. I have seen Ginger’s work before and was somewhat...

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Who pays on dates?

There have been, and there continues to be, many articles written about the topic of who should meet the costs of dating or courtship. Most articles appear to be written by women, with most mocking (to...

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Taking a short break – back soon

On holidays and I thought it would be nice to provide a light-hearted change from another soul-destroying account of the ongoing ravages of gynocentrism and its bastard child, 3rd wave feminism. I...

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International Conference on Men’s Issues, 2016

The second International Conference on Men’s Issues – ICMI16 – was held in London, UK on 8-10 July, 2016. The program features twenty speakers on a variety of issues pertaining to the welfare of men...

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How one union got drunk on feminist ‘kool-aid’ (CFMEU)

“The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is Australia’s main trade union in construction, forestry, furnishing products, mining and energy production. The CFMEU has offices in all...

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Gender reversal: This article on employee injury/death would have taken a...

The article I want to discuss in this post is ‘If you don’t have a beer you’re not a man’ – rural workplaces made more dangerous by drugs and alcohol, by feminist academic Julaine Allan. The author...

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“I wonder if we men would have behaved the same seeing women at a summit for...

The article linked to this Twitter post is entitled ‘Be bullish about investing in women, and … be better at everything‘ by a truly cringeworthy ‘White Knight‘ journalist by the name of Leszek J....

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The other side to the issue of financial abuse

Part of the motivation for writing this post was reading an article entitled ‘The financial abuse that affects 2 million Australian women‘, by Bianca Hartge-Hazelman. Bianca is the Founder & Chief...

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Since when did it become acceptable for public servants to block people on...

As readers might be aware, I maintain an ongoing interest in the operation of the Australian Human Rights Commission. See for example: Profound gender bias at the Australian Human Rights Commission...

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Female privilege checklist

I look at organisations that show a strong bias towards supporting women/girls when they should provide equal support for people regardless of gender (or at least based on *actual* need measured in an...

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That porn-sharing web site: Time for a reality-check

Today I wanted to offer some comments in relation to an article entitled The police response I never expected, by Nina Funnell (18 August 2016). This article was prompted by the now highly-publicised...

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On displays of racism in public places

Regular readers of this blog would be aware that I tend to get a bit riled about the way that men are consistently portrayed as the perpetrators of anti-social behaviour, whilst their many good deeds...

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Diversity Council Australia fails to understand ‘diversity’

Imagine an organisation called the ‘Alternative Diversity Council Australia‘ which organised a debate entitled ‘Is engaging women the game-changer for gender equality?‘. Sounds a bit condescending to...

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New Zealand journalist labels men as the ultimate predators

I had the misfortune to read an article in the NZ Herald entitled ‘No predator more dangerous than the human male‘ by Rachel Stewart. This is the self-same journo who last year informed us that...

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On bigotry as art (#KillAllMen at NIDA)

NIDA →Productions & Events →#KillAllBlacks #KillAllBlacks Date/Time: 19 Oct 2016 – 25 Oct 2016 Eight men create an internet utopia where they discuss the most intimate details of their lives, the...

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Excuse me NSW Government, your gender bias and lack of objectivity is showing...

On 21 October 2016 the Daily Telegraph published an article entitled ‘Domestic violence: Perpetrators would receive warning texts and videos‘. I have reproduced the article below with my own comments...

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