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Culture, Feminism, Law, Men, Radicalism

Officially inaugurating the Domestic Violence industry

Prime Minister Albanese has officially inaugurated the Domestic Violence Industry with an allocation of five billion dollars to all manner of feminist clubs, associations, NGOs, organizations, clicks, political fanatics, government departments, sociologists, psychologists, specialists, doctors, and so on and so on and so on . . .

The Domestic Violence industry is modelled on the stunningly successful Aboriginal Industry which has spent billions of dollars to achieve very little apart from giving the same ideological groups a nice little earner, thank you very much.

Truly a Labor Party initiative.

People – especially men – should remember this at next year’s federal election.

Australia, Culture, Feminism, Law, Media, Men, Radicalism

5 billion dollars to persecute men

The Albanese leftist government has allocated almost 5 billion dollars to the feminists to persecute men and lock them up wherever possible. It is an irony that Janice Fiamengo’s latest comment has just appeared.

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The Victim is Always Female

The real (male) victims of false allegations are often quickly passed over

Janice Fiamengo, Sep 05, 2024

“Better ten innocent men go to jail than one potential female victim hesitate to come forward.”

At least, that seemed to be the consensus in 2017, when I first made this video. I’m not sure it’s still entirely true, though I do often hear the ‘Ultimately, this will hurt women …’ argument when the subject is male disadvantage or blatant anti-male injustice.

This video was originally part of the No Joke Janice video series, designed by my friend and producer Steve Brule as short audio commentary on current events. (Over time, many of the videos became indistinguishable from the main Fiamengo File videos, longer and more detailed—before they were all taken down by YouTube’s censors in one fell swoop. Steve is now re-posting many of them at Studio B.)

In the video, I used a couple of then-recent news items to analyze how media consistently put the spotlight on women as the primary victims of women’s false accusations against men. Even when a man had spent years in prison on a made-up charge, judges and pundits usually expressed concern about the negative effect on other potential female accusers (though evidence of this negative effect was never produced).

Re-watching the video yesterday, I wondered if it was still quite as true now as I believed it to be then. Is this an area in which men’s issues advocates have actually made a difference in putting the focus on harms to men? Or has feminist hysteria simply backfired on itself? Recently, Bettina Arndt hosted a conference on “Restoring the Presumption of Innocence” that brought many concerned Australian citizens together around the issue.

Read the rest here . . .

Culture, Feminism, Law, Media, Radicalism

A tyranny of hysterical man-hatred

Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin presented (21 August) a report on Australia’s domestic violence to an audience of sympathetic media feminists at the National Press Club.

I will provide two media reports on Commissar Cronin’s report to lay out the main points. The first (below) is from news.com.au. The second (following) will be from the ABC.

Cronin’s hysterical (emotional, not funny) rant against men regurgitates all the usual accusations against men in cases of ‘domestic violence’ which at least should be called domestic conflict. The correct title should be couple conflict. There is never just one person in couple conflict – to state the obvious.

For Cronin and her feelingly sympathetic feminist audience, the man is always the perpetrator, and the woman is always the victim – the eternal victim. The woman never does anything to provoke conflict. Oh no, never.

Ask the women who fall prey to another woman’s devastating spite, calumny, and backbiting. If a man’s verbal abuse or coercion is rated under ‘domestic violence’, the female’s mouth can be doubly so.

Not only does the ordinary person’s experience speak against such claims against men, but the professional people I cite here cogently argue against that nonsense. I refer one to the articles and research of Bettina Arndt and Janice Fiamengo.

There are, however, two points in Cronin’s presentation that I want to highlight. According to news.com.au ‘she said Australia needed to be using all of the tools that are available for tackling terrorism, including monitoring social media, to end violence against women and children.’

“I think that what we need is for the community to take as seriously threats of domestic, family and sexual violence as they take terrorist threats, act on them as urgently and recognise that they are different,” Ms Cronin said.

It is difficult to comprehend that a rational person who experiences everyday life, including the many moments of disagreement between couples, could reduce couple conflict to terrorism initiated by the man.

How is a couple’s conflict analogical with ideological beheadings, stabbings, shootings, and bombings? Well, it’s not. It is delusional to suggest it.

The second point I want to highlight is the question of family law. One of the major complaints men have in divorce settlements is the outrageous unfairness of Australia’s family law legislation. The settlement is almost always weighted strongly in favour of the woman, sometimes leaving the man with barely anything of what he has worked for. But news.com.au reports:

‘The federal government will on Thursday introduce changes to the family law system that would ensure family and domestic violence can be taken into consideration in property settlements for separating families.’

And Cronin says: “Victims and survivors of family violence can struggle to achieve a fair division of property after a relationship breakdown, and often suffer long-term financial disadvantage.”

Where did they get this ridiculous woman from – a woman so out of touch with reality – a woman who does not hesitate to compare couple conflict with international ideologically motivated terrorism?

Men have to wake up and do something. That something is political action – working through our political system to hunt from office those politicians and political parties who enable this extreme prejudice against men. We know who they are.

The next federal election – arguably the most crucial since Federation – is likely to be at the beginning of 2025. Men should start their political preparations now.

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Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner: Australia’s DV response must be as urgent as terrorism

Courts, police and services on the frontline of Australia’s domestic violence crisis are “causing harm,” the nation’s top expert has warned, in a plea for more resources to protect vulnerable women and children.

Jade Gailberger and Clare Armstrong August 21, 2024

Courts, police and services on the frontline of Australia’s domestic violence crisis are “causing harm,” the nation’s top expert has warned, in a plea for more resources to protect vulnerable women and children.

Calling for the scourge of abuse to be taken as seriously as “terrorism”, Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin on Wednesday handed down the first report card into the national response.

The report highlighted an alarming 43 per cent spike in the rate of police recorded DV-related sexual assaults for women between 2014 and 2022.

Meanwhile, the federal government will on Thursday introduce changes to the family law system that would ensure family and domestic violence can be taken into consideration in property settlements for separating families.

It can be exclusively revealed that National Legal Aid is calling on Labor to invest $317m in domestic violence legal services to meet demand and stop women being turned away.

Micaela Cronin says Australia’s response to domestic and family violence must be as urgent as terrorism. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Micaela Cronin says Australia’s response to domestic and family violence must be as urgent as terrorism. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

“I think that what we need is for the community to take as seriously threats of domestic, family and sexual violence as they take terrorist threats, act on them as urgently and recognise that they are different,” Ms Cronin said.

She said Australia needed to be using all of the tools that are available for tackling terrorism, including monitoring social media, to end violence against women and children.

Labor is introducing family law changes to ensure the best interests of children are a central consideration.

Labor is introducing family law changes to ensure the best interests of children are a central consideration.

The first annual report into the 10-year national plan states that “serious concerns have been raised that government systems, including the family court and child protection system, are causing harm, and that police too often misidentify women as the primary aggressor – with terrible consequences – when they are the person most in need of protection”.

It calls for increased accountability for people who use violence and reinforces that “frontline and crisis services need to be better and more sustainably resourced.”

Read the rest here . . .

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Another horrific case of domestic murder

Again, it is sheer coincidence that I was alerted to the ABC report below not long after I finished posting the previous report.

I must congratulate the ABC reporters for their restraint. In the recent past, cases like the present have unleashed fiery condemnations from the ABC about the pernicious nature of maleness – as exhibited by a man setting his house on fire to kill his family.

However, this is a preliminary report, and the ABC may still have the chance to express their fury over that poisonous male entity in our society.

Two points are pertinent, though. The trio of reporters were able to convey the deadly information that the man tried to stop police from rescuing the children. What an evil bastard. On the other hand, they had to quote police as saying that the man had no criminal record, was not subject to an AVO, or was before the courts.

So, what motivated his murderous violence?

A hint to those man-hating feminists out there: just saying he’s a man is longer enough.

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Three children dead after house fire in Sydney’s west being treated as domestic violence incident

By Tony Ibrahim, Ethan Rix, and Holly Tregenza, ABC, 7 July 2024

A fire which killed three young children in a house at Lalor Park in Sydney’s west is being treated as a domestic violence incident. 

Fire crews were called to the scene just before 1am on Sunday. 

Police said two boys, aged two and four, were treated by paramedics and taken to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition, but died a short time later.

Fire and Rescue crews extinguished the fire before the third child, believed to be a 10-month-old girl, was found dead at the scene. 

Police allege a 28-year-old man, who is now in custody, tried to stop police and other emergency services from rescuing the children from the burning home. 

“I can confirm during police attempts to get into the property, those efforts were frustrated by a male inside,” NSW Police Acting Superintendent Jason Pietruszka said. 

Police tape cover the driveway of a burnt out home.
Fire investigators are making their way through the low-set brick house on Freeman Street in Lalor Park. (ABC News: Ethan Rix)

The man arrested is the father of the children who died and was under police guard in hospital. 

He was in an induced coma and being treated for burns and smoke inhalation. 

The mother, as well as four other children aged between six to 11 years, were also taken to hospital and were expected to recover.

Superintendent Pietruszka said the incident was being investigated as a domestic violence related offence, and said the man was not the subject of an AVO and was not before the court for any matter. 

“He is not adversely known to police at all,” Superintendent Pietruszka said. 

“We’re treating this as a domestic-related homicide, multiple homicide. “

Read the rest here . . .

Feminism, Law, Media, Men

Behind the scenes – driven to despair?

It is sheer coincidence that Janice Fiamengo’s latest piece follows my previous post in which I mentioned the horrific case of the man who killed his wife and children. He threw petrol over the car in which they sat and set it alight.

Naturally, I wrote, feminists blame his being a man as the sole motivation for this horror. No other explanation necessary. But I wondered what circumstances would bring a man to kill his family in that way. In her latest piece on her substack, Janice Fiamengo added crucial background information as a prelude to another issue concerning men and women.

No normal man kills his family just because he is a man. No, there must be other factors playing a crucial role. In this case, the man, Rowan Baxter, was driven homicidally crazy by a custody battle. Familiar circumstances for a growing multitude of men. That does not excuse Baxter’s murderous behavior, just as it does not excuse the behavior of women driven to homicide. But it does offer an explanation.

It is significant that the detective in charge of the case was booted off when he alluded to Baxter’s torment. Of course, a female was appointed to take his place. Oh, yes, she would provide the right perspective, wouldn’t she?

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Everyone Agrees that the Murder of a Child is a Dreadful Crime

Except when a woman is the killer


JANICE FIAMENGO, JUN 29, 2024

Ohio mom who left toddler alone when she went on vacation sentenced to life in prison

When Rowan Baxter murdered his estranged wife and three children by pouring petrol on their car and setting it on fire in Brisbane, Australia in February, 2020, the news reports were unsparing with the sickening details, describing the raging flames that engulfed the children and relating how Baxter’s wife, Hannah, who escaped the car with “her skin melting off,” begged neighbors to save them. Readers were encouraged to dwell in imagination on the unhinged cruelty of the father, who “tried to stop bystanders from rescuing them as they burned to death before stabbing himself in the chest when he knew his evil deed was done,” as the Daily Mail Australia narrated. (In fact, nothing could have been done to save the children; the father merely screamed at passersby.)

Even the headline made sure no reader could fail to simmer with contempt: “Gutless father who set family car alight tried to stop bystanders saving his three children as they burned to death inside.” Various relatives of the dead woman were quoted calling the ex-husband a “heartless monster” and a “disgusting human being,” and dozens of reports quoted statements about Baxter from Hannah’s friends and family as if they were fact.  

When the detective in charge of the investigation suggested at a press conference that it was possible Baxter was “driven too far” by events of the preceding year, his comment caused an immediate uproar because he raised the mere possibility that a fierce custody battle, rather than innate cruelty, may have influenced the murder-suicide. That detective was immediately taken off the case and replaced by a woman who said he should not have spoken as he did.

It was clear that Baxter must be seen as an emblem of pure masculine evil. Nothing must be allowed to humanize him, nothing to assuage public outrage. When Premier Jacinta Allan of Victoria, Australia announced her new Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behavior Change (focused on “prioritizing the safety of women, children, and communities”), readers remembering Baxter would have had no trouble recognizing the need. No one, after all, doubts the reality and impact of men’s violence.

Women’s violence, however, is another matter. Less than a year later in Australia, this time in Melbourne, a mother was the killer of three children, and the reporting was entirely different. A report of the crime, “Police reveal Tullamarine’s Perinovic family home deaths likely a murder-suicide,” is typical in eschewing sensationalism; it refrains in the title even from identifying the mother as the killer. Katie Perinovic, the same age as Rowan Baxter when he committed murder, is listed with her children as one of the “victims of Thursday’s tragedy,” and the mood evoked by the report is one of uncomprehending sadness rather than outrage. Neighbors remember a lovely family and wonder how to break the sad news to their children. The event is repeatedly referred to not as a “shocking murder-suicide” (as in the case of the Baxter car inferno) but as a tragedy, a “heartbreaking experience” for everyone involved, almost as if it were a natural disaster rather than a deliberate human act.

No cause of death is given, no horrifying details are provided, and there are no comments from family members of the bereaved father calling the mother a “disgusting human being” or “heartless monster.” In another report, neighbors gave glowing depictions, calling her “the best mum” and “one of the nicest people you’d meet.” An earlier report, before it was determined that the mother had carried out the killings, referred to “gruesome injuries” inside the family home, but these were not mentioned, or explained, in later reports. It seems clear that in the first hours of the investigation, the father was a suspect; if he had been charged with the murders, we would have heard a good deal more about the “gruesome injuries.” But with the mother as the killer, such details came to be seen as inappropriate.

Read the rest here . . .