Heaven, Earth, Mankind and Happy Dads

With Special Guests:

• Professor Ian Plimer and
  
• Professor John Jenkins.

This week we opt for variety, beginning the show with one of Australia’s leading climate change sceptics Professor Ian Plimer, whose new book Heaven & Earth: Global Warming The Missing Science has topped the bestseller lists and is already into its fifth edition in Australia in a month. The author of seven books, Professor Plimer is somewhat taken aback to finally find himself the author of a bestseller. Not only are issues around global warming of intrinsic worth to fathers, the propaganda techniques used to convince the general population that only politicians can save us through higher taxes and greater government control is also of direct relevance.

We then move on to Professor John Jenkins, who has just completed a study on separated dads suggesting they should learn to relax, play and have more fun with their kids. For everybody’s sake.

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The Rite Journey

With Special Guests:

• Andrew Lines and
• James Adams

Rites of passage and initiation into adulthood through ceremony and the passing on of wisdom from men to boys has always been a fundamental part of indigenous and tribal cultures but is strangely lacking in the West.

Andrew Lines is a high school teacher from South Australia who has devloped a unique boy’s education initiative which has evolved over the last 10 years. The program is called The Rite Journey and is implemented over a year in the school setting for boys around the age of 14 and is now being adopted in a number of private schools. There is also interest from the public sector. In looking at the racist, sexist and homophobic views that some of his students were expressing, and in the grip of reading Stephen Biddulph’s Manhood, he decided to question how this came about and found a lack of male role models, mentors and teachers in the boys lives.

Following our tradition of tracking Australian family law reform closer than any other media outlet, this week we move on to talk to James Adams from Fathers4Equality about the issue of perjury in the Family Court. He argues that the common practice of making up allegations against the father in the Family Court is a form of child abuse.

In a recent press release Fathers4Equality argued that the Chief Justice Diana Bryant’s personal push to take out the perjury elements in the Family Law Act is a case of poor judgement.

He says: “The Chief Justice of the Family Court, Diana Bryant, has recently launched an extraordinary attack on Australia’s internationally regarded 2006 Family Law amendments, by writing to the Attorney-General and asking him to urgently repeal important provisions within the amendments.

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Men Under Labor

With special guests:

• John Flanagan
• George Potkonyak
• Geoffrey Greene and
  
• Phil York.

This week Dads On The Air, which began with a group of separated blokes damaged by and brave enough to raise a voice against the overwhelming anti-father bias of Australia’s family law system, returns to its roots. We talk with John Flanagan from the Equal Parenting Party, George Potkonyak a solicitor dealing with family law and child support issues, Phil York from Dads in Distress and Geoffrey Greene from the Shared Parenting Council of Australia.

Democracy has failed the nation’s fathers. Issues of concern to dads, including men’s health, long and unreasonable work hours, poor pay, family law, child support and a host of other issues are never or rarely ever addressed by our politicians. The electoral success of leftwing governments hostage to feminist lobby groups in America, Australia and the UK has simply made the situation worse. Corrupt and unaccountable systems thrive in secrecy while the nation’s politicians look the other way.

In Australia there are serious concerns that even the modest reforms introduced by the previous government aimed at creating at least an element of fairness into family law are about to be wiped away. Extreme male bashing taxpayer funded women’s groups are mounting a spirited campaign to return the world to the dark ages when most fathers caught up in family law never or rarely ever saw their children again.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made great play out of his devotion to feminist causes, ignoring the many issues which affect his own gender. He is following the example of his hero Barack Obama, who as made sure feminist causes are a major plank of his government’s operations. Many critics believe that as a result of this abject devotion to fashionable ideologies the situation for many fathers is getting worse under both leaders.

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How Family Courts Contribute to Family Destruction

With special guest:

• “Diana”.

This week we present a compelling interview with a separated Australian mother of three, whose ex-husband successfully resorted to all the malicious tools available to both parents under the family justice system. Her appalling experience as a victim of the system will resonate with many fathers, as statistically these very same tactics are mostly used by mothers in order to separate fathers from their children.

“Diana” (not her real name because we’re prevented by law from using her real name), describes in great detail how her ex-husband was able to use false child sex abuse allegations and take out an AVO against her, in order to separate her from her children, safe in the knowledge he would not be punished as a result of his perjury.
 
Our Prime Minister made it known in no uncertain terms recently, that “those that trade on the tragedy of others should rot in jail” and in fact “should rot in hell”. In his view, those that do so, “are engaged in the world’s most evil trade and represent the absolute scum of the earth… the lowest form of life”. 
 
Well Mr Rudd, we have a whole industry trading on the tragedy of others, that has done so with the blessing of successive Australian Governments for the past 35 years. This industry has wreaked absolute havoc and destroyed millions of lives during its long reign of terror against separating parents and their children, yet hardly a whisper of concern is raised by our legislators.
 
This week’s program again illustrates how easy it is for both responsible fathers and mothers to be separated from their children when a malicious, vindictive ex-partner decides to make use of false child sex abuse and domestic violence allegations, in order to obtain valuable time to set in motion the insidious parental alienation process, which turns children against their own family.

The perpetrators of this insidious practice are free to do so under the watchful eye of the judiciary, in the perjury-friendly atmosphere of our family courts, and ironically, somehow this is seen to be “in the best interests of our children”.

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