Abused Men

With special guests

• Joshua Key, subject of the book The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq. Key, a young husband and father from Oklahoma, enlisted in the US Army in 2002 to lift his family out of poverty. Key tells of the human rights abuses he witnessed in Iraq: civilians beaten and shot, killed or maimed after little or no provocation. After seven months in Iraq, Key went home and knew he could no longer serve his country.

• Mary Cleary from AMEN, Ireland. AMEN is a voluntary group, founded in December 1997, which provides a confidential helpline, a support service and information for male victims of domestic abuse. Thousands of men and supportive members of their families have contacted the helpline since it was set up. She is also co-author of a new book That Bitch: Protect Yourself Against Women with Malicious Intent.

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Dads in Schools

With special guests:

• John Andrianus and Dave Turnidge from the Boys in Schools Program, part of the Fathers in Communities Project at the Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle. Begun in February 2006, this 2-year project has 3 objectives: to create stronger families through supporting men in their roles as fathers, create a greater awareness for families and schools of the importance of the role of fathers and to provide guidelines and resources to assist in that work.

Also, Greg Andresen reports in from the Men and Family Relationships National Forum in Adelaide.

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Examining Misandry

With special guests:

• Dr. Paul Nathanson and Dr. Katherine Young, authors of two very important books that uncover the underlying contempt for men and boys in our culture today: Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture and Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men.
• Simon Hunt, from Parents Against Institutionalised Child Abuse. A unique voice in the Australian Fatherhood movement by dint of refusing to shut up. Hunt has distilled the problems with the Family Law system down to one key issue: equal time parenting after separation - the solution that removes the problem.
• Sue Price, from the Men’s Rights Agency, talking about the bizarre news that the Child Support Agency has been given an award for it’s work in the area of suicide prevention!

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The New Australian Spinster

Prof Gordon Finley

With special guests:

• Professor Gordon Finley, from Florida International University, talking about the social implications of the current gender imbalance in Higher Education.
• Max, from a new website www.taxfundedprejudice.com
• Warwick Marsh, from the Fatherhood Foundation, reporting from the National Summit on Marriage, Family and Fatherhood at Parliament House, Canberra
• John Pierson, Canberra bureaucrat, recorded at the Lone Fathers National Convention

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Family Court Hell

With special guests:

• Mark Harris, jailed for waving at his daughters as they drove past in the family car, and author of a new book Family Court Hell, a rare insight into the closed British family court system
• Jolly Stansby, activist from the UK’s Fathers 4 Justice, most famous for dressing up as a superhero and scaling public buildings to bring awareness to the injustice in the British family courts. Jolly was most recently arrested in the USA for scaling the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
• Damon (not his real name), an Aussie dad who has been fortunate enough to receive 50-50 shared care of his children
• Ted Donnelly, from Lane Cove Community Men’s Shed talking about the 2nd National Community Men’s Sheds Conference.

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Fathers' Day Special

With special guests:

• Eric Burch, US serviceman and musician
• Matt O’Connor, leader of Fathers 4 Justice UK
• Jacinta Hawgood, from the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, at Griffith University
• Warwick Marsh, from the Fatherhood Foundation
• Colin George, from the Fatherhood Festival in Bangalow (Northern NSW).

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Dissident Voices

Christina Hoff Sommers

With special guests:

• Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys interviewed at the Boys and the Boy Crisis conference in Washington DC
• Independent MP Ann Bressington from South Australia who is calling on the Federal Government to take action to protect children from being caught in the middle of divorce and separation disputes
• The Hon Philip Ruddock MP, Australia’s Attorney General, answering questions from dads at the recent Lone Fathers National Conference in Canberra.

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Suburban Heroes

With special guests:

• Allan Turner, Chief Executive of the Zaidee Rainbow Foundation, urging all families to sign up for organ transplants.
• John Ashfield, author of a number of books including Matters For Men, The Nature of Men and Looking After Your Family and
• Harry Hill, author of a new book He Was My Father.

As well our researcher Greg Andresen will be calling in from the UK, where he has been interviewing a number of leading figures in the fatherhood movement and a fortnightly new segment, Research Central with Tom Mok will kick off with a look at a new paper De-constructing the Essential Father.

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Welfare, Debt, Credit, Bureaucracy and Betrayal: the Howard Years

Julie Owens MP

With special guests:

• Peter Saunders, senior researcher, Centre for Independent Studies
• Scott Garman from New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men, the only Commission for Men anywhere in the world
• Tony Miller, founder of Dads In Distress
• Tom Mok on Child Support Agency’s misleading data and
• Julie Owens, Labor MP for Parramatta.

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UK Special - Fathers Direct

Adrienne Burgess

With special guest:

• Adrienne Burgess, author of Fatherhood Reclaimed, and Policy and Research advisor to Fathers Direct - the UK National Information Centre on Fatherhood.

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Supporting New Dads

With special guests:

• Sean Tonnet, facilitator of the Transition to Fatherhood course at Manly Hospital, Sydney, NSW, and
• Joel Edson, creator of the Fathers and Families project in Port Augusta, South Australia

Dads on the Air looks at the growing area of ante-natal services for new dads-to-be.

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Parental Alienation Syndrome

With special guest:

• the UK’s Dr Ludwig Lowenstein, one of the world’s leading experts on Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), who has just published a new book Parental Alienation: How to Understand and Address Parental Alienation Resulting from Acrimonious Divorce or Separation

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The Dangers of Original Thought

Erin Pizzey

With special guest

• Erin Pizzey, founder of the world’s first refuge for battered women.

Erin Pizzey says domestic violence is not a gender issue. “It’s quite simple”, she says, “if children are born into violent families, both boys and girls will be infected.” She believes eventually we will have to concentrate on an alternative strategy of love and hope for these problem families. We will have to abandon the model of idealising the “victim”, demonising the “perpetrator” and politicising the issues.

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New Zealand Special

With special guests:

• Celia Lashlie, author, He’ll Be Okay: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men
• Jim Bailey, outspoken critic of the government-promoted mistreatment of fathers at the hands of the judiciary and the bureacracy
• Jim Bagnall, chairman of the Separated Fathers Support Network

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What Men Don't Talk About

With special guests:

• Maggie Hamilton, author of What Men Don’t Talk About says “writing this book… was prompted by my growing unease at the many assumptions I had made about men. While I’d been happy to believe that… men were never vulnerable, when I took a closer look at men, I began to realise this wasn’t the case… I realised that the many dilemmas men grapped with, the pain they felt, were largely invisible.”
• Nick Gleeson from Vision Australia has two children, lost his sight when he was seven years old after colliding with a supermarket door. After successfully competing in the gruelling Comrades 90km marathon run in South Africa in 2000, he climbed the challenging Mt Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa and was the first blind Australian to make it to the summit.

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Dr Warren Farrell - Part 2

Dr Warren Farrell

With special guest:

• Dr Warren Farrell, leading US social commentator of our time and celebrated Author. In the 1990s, Dr. Farrell felt the misunderstandings about men had become dangerous to the survival of families and love. He confronted the misunderstandings head-on with the award-winning The Myth of Male Power. His most recent book is Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap - and What Women Can Do About It. It documents why the pay gap is not about discrimination but about 25 differences between men and women’s work-life decisions.

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Dr Warren Farrell - Part 1

With special guest:

• Dr Warren Farrell, famous social commentator and author of best selling books including Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love.

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idont.com.au

With Special Guest:

• Melinda Poole.

The amicable divorce has become a fashion statement. Anything to avoid years of bitterness and dispute. In the rush to common sense commercial opportunities are opening up. The very enterprising Melinda Poole has established Australia’s Divorce Directory at www.i-dont.com.au

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