Father’s murder heartbreak

THE heartbroken Hobart father of two children believed killed by their mother in murder-suicide in Melbourne will always be haunted by the knowledge he missed out on their final years.

Dominic Maher yesterday said he felt let down by a system that had prevented him from seeing son Matthew, 11 and daughter Melanie, 13, for three years before they died.

Police believe mother Kylie Fowler, 36, argued with the children’s older half sister Sammantha Fowler, 18, before killing all three children, setting fire to the house and committing suicide. Mr Maher, of Chigwell, said he had spent years locked in court battles with Ms Maher, but when it consistently decided in her favour, he eventually moved to Tasmania.

He been preparing a video for his children explaining why he had lost contact with them which he planned to hand to them on their 18th birthday. Breaking down yesterday, he said now he would never get the chance. “I don’t know how you come to terms with something like this … it is too much to take in,”

Mr Maher said. He said he had only recently learned where his children lived, and was now consumed with questions about their final moments alive. “I have heard these stories that Sam was stabbed and Matthew went to the her aid, and I just keep thinking about what was going through their minds. “I just want to know if they suffered.” Tragically, it is only now that his children have died that he is learning facts about their lives.

He did not know that Matthew was in a football club and it is only through tributes posted online by their friends that he is learning how well-liked they were. But he said he has fond memories of their early childhoods and said he took comfort in knowing they knew how much he loved them. “They were friendly, outgoing kids.

Everyone loved them. “Sammantha who was my stepdaughter was a lovely kid, she had to grow up too quick because she was always helping look after the other kids.” Mr Maher is no stranger to tragedy, having lost his first partner and son in a car accident.

He and Ms Maher lost another son, Michael, to cot death and he said the death severely impacted on her. “She was never the same afterwards. It hit us both hard.” He said he planned to go to Melbourne as soon as the children’s bodies were released by the coroner, which he had been told would take about a week. “I want to do everything right.

If I go over there now I am in limbo, at least here I can work and keep busy. “I know they have got friends there so I hope to hold a service so they can say goodbye, before bringing them back [to Hobart] for their funerals.”

Mr Maher said he was now trying to piece together the years of his children’s lives that he had missed out on. “My photos are all outdated and now that the kids are gone they are all I have left,” he said.

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An open letter to all Australian Men’s Advocacy Groups

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January 6, 2012Paul ElamFeminist Governance

Australia launches “The Plan” and the end to civil rights

As chief cook and bottle washer at AVfM I have been in the dubious position of gathering information from across the globe on the negative impact of feminist governance.

Last year we addressed matters like the “Dear Colleague” letter, which effectively ended the right of due process for college men accused of any sort of sexual misconduct. We covered the unthinkable events in India, where men have been assaulted and even thrown from moving trains for daring to set foot in train car reserved for women; where politicians have suggested bounties be paid to women who beat their husbands in public. We exposed circumstances in Sweden, where school children are being indoctrinated into the virulent and hateful ideology of Valerie Solanas. Just last night we did a radio show as a follow up to Robert O’Hara’s investigative piece on the plan to coerce 28,000,000 African men into being circumcised. And of course there is the ongoing exposure of ideologues at Radfem Hub, a group of well-placed feminists who glorify murder, child abuse, eugenics and infanticide.

It appears now that 2011 was just a warm up for 2012.

Over the next several days you will find a series of articles on this website regarding an assault on human rights that will sweep the Australian continent. The scope of a planned campaign by the Australian government (The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, 2009-2021) is so far reaching that presenting it without overwhelming readers has been a significant challenge for myself, Kyle Lovett and John the Other. The sheer volume of the content, as well as the staggering loss of civil rights that Australian men are about to suffer is formidable.

The amount and complexity of the material to come is sufficient that I felt it warranted to prepare you with this article, which in essence is written solely for the purpose of bracing you for the onslaught of information; to, if I may request your indulgence, tell you what you are about to be told.

These machinations have now reached the stage of action, and are about to be implemented. They involve, but are by no means limited, to the following:

The systemic enabling and promotion of child abuse by mothers and other women.
The Australian government suppression of research that implicates women as child abusers.
The legal redefinition of domestic violence to include acts such as making purchases without consulting your wife, not listening to your wife or even disciplining your dog.
The legal redefinition of domestic violence to exclude male victims from that legal definition.
Arresting and holding men in prison, without bail, on the accusation alone of domestic violence.
Summarily evicting men from their homes while forcing them to maintain financial responsibility for those homes on nothing more than an accusation from their wives or girlfriends.
Shifting the burden of proof on domestic violence from the state to the defendant. The accused will be forced to prove he did not commit an act of violence.
The legal redefinition of rape, and subsequent shift of the burden of proof onto a defendant to prove the he obtained specific kinds of verbal consent for sex.

These actions are not individual initiatives to change isolated and different laws. They are all part of a package deal referred to as “The Plan.” It is a far reaching, invasive effort of monumental scope designed to eliminate the civil rights of men and children across the Australian continent, and as you will see in the upcoming articles it is well on its way to becoming reality.

The articles will explain “The Plan” in detail, and show the egregiously corrupt methods that ideologues employed within the Australian government are using in order to pass it all through to law.

For instance, Australian research up to 1997 demonstrated empirically that women, overwhelmingly, are the perpetrators of physical, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse of children – compared with men.

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After 1997, the Australian government ceased requesting and recording information on the sex of offenders against children in the home, and all the subsequent proposals in “The Plan” run on the assumption that the male is the primary perpetrator.

What you will also learn in the upcoming series of articles is that all of the proposed legislation is specifically gender targeted. The suggested laws will be written with the protection of women and the punishment of men in mind, and will leave scores of abuse victims even more vulnerable than they were before implementation of “The Plan.” This will be particularly true for children who will frequently have the father, their only protector from an abusive mother, removed from the home and incarcerated without bail as the “identified problem.”

What you will also learn is that the suppression and distortion of scientific research so that it appears to support “The Plan,” has reached pervasive levels in Australia. Such a level of corruption is occurring with complicity and enabling from within the Australian government.

Australia, you will learn, is about to be thrust into the legal Dark Ages, beginning in 2012.

A Voice for Men, I am proud to say, is a very popular website in Australia. It is our hopes that this series of articles will give our friends Down Under something on which to take action with their elected representatives. Perhaps it is not too late to prevent the majority of the damage.

There is some action already. Dr. Greg Canning, an Australian oncologist, has formed an organization to foster an initiative to address these issues. I am going to close this piece with his announcement, hoping that it reaches the eyes of as many Australian citizens as possible.

An open letter to all Australian Men’s Advocacy Groups

There exist in Australia many men’s advocacy groups, albeit with differences in focus. This indicates that many men are not being treated fairly in our country that prides itself on providing a fair go for all.

In the lead up to the next federal election, I have a vision, that if all the men’s groups in Australia unite to jointly lobby for men’s issues to be put on the national political agenda, we can make a difference.

To this end I ask all groups to commence a joint dialogue with a view to supporting a delegation to go to Canberra and lobby for change.

The focus of the delegation will be open for discussion, but I believe it should present a small number of broad objectives, which could include:

Establishment of an Office for Men, and Minister for Men as are currently operating for women.
A requirement for intellectual honesty and peer review in the data being used to drive social policy for example the “National Plan to reduce violence against women and their children 2010 to 2022”
A requirement to address the increasing problem of fatherlessness in Australia, its determinants and consequences.
A focus on Male specific health and education issues.

Whilst it is acknowledged there will be philosophical differences amongst the groups, I have little doubt that all would agree with these types of objective.

In the first instance I have commenced a discussion group that can be accessed at http://menscoalition.blogspot.com/

This is a private site and you will need to be invited to join the discussions please email gregcanning@me.com to request access.

Please log on to the blog and in the comments section of the first post introduce yourself and your organisation or group and share your thoughts on forming or joining a “Coalition of Australian Men.”

We can then see where the discussion leads us, but I believe if our joint voices can finally be heard nationally as those of reason and egalitarianism, in the land of the fair go for all, perhaps our sons and daughters will enjoy a brighter future.

Please pass this message onto anyone you believe would be genuinely committed to such a cause.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Greg Canning

Written by Paul Elam

03 January 2012: Senior judge starts campaign to ‘mend not end marriages’. Couples who split up ‘condemn children’ to unstable homes

Top judge says mothers should have children taken away if they don’t let fathers see them … Full Story

By Eleanor Harding Mail
3rd January 2012

A senior High Court judge has hit out at couples who ditch each other instead of trying to make their relationships work – condemning their children to the trauma of an unstable home.
Sir Paul Coleridge has launched a campaign to promote marriage and reverse the ‘appalling’ impact of family breakdown in the face of soaring divorce rates.
The judge, who has previously bemoaned divorce as easier than getting a driving licence, said the millions of children currently being fought over in the family courts were a ‘complete scandal’.
And in a controversial move for a serving judge, he is setting up a foundation to promote marriage as figures show that divorce is on the rise.
It comes on the day lawyers say is traditionally the busiest for divorce petitions.
Due to tension in families over the Christmas period, January sees the number of enquiries double – with the first working day of the year being the busiest.
Sir Paul condemned what he called couples’ ‘recycling’ attitudes in ending relationships when they have children to think of.
He told The Times: ‘My message is mend it — don’t end it. Over 40 years of working in the family justice system, I have seen the fall-out of these broken relationships.
‘There are an estimated 3.8million children currently caught up in the family justice system. I personally think that’s a complete scandal.’
Sir Paul, 62, who is married with three children and three grandchildren, also said marriage is better for children than cohabitation and advocated it as the ‘gold standard’.
He added: ‘You are four times more likely to break up before your child is five years old if you are not married.’ DAVID CAMERON Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
Debate: Prime Minister David Cameron, left, has advocated tax breaks for married couples but this is opposed by his deputy, Nick Clegg
His comments will give cheer to those alarmed by the rise in marriage breakdowns in recent years.
But critics have questioned whether it is right for a judge in his position to take sides on the matter.
Anastasia de Waal, director of family and education at think-tank Civitas, said: ‘It is very important where you’ve got a judge who is making decisions about families that they are not clouded by a particular view but are looking at what is going to serve the family.’
Sir Paul spent three decades as a family barrister before 2000, when he became a High Court judge. Governments cannot legislate stronger relationships into existence. Ultimately, more and stronger marriages will result from individual choices, behaviour and culture. We will seek to influence those choices. – SIR PAUL COLERIDGE
Earlier this year he criticised the divorce system for reducing the breakdown of marriage to a basic form-filling exercise.
His Marriage Foundation has been backed by top names in the judiciary and legal profession, including Baroness Butler-Sloss, the former President of the Family Division.
It is also supported by Baroness Deech, a leading family academic and currently chairman of the Bar Standards Board and Baroness Shackleton, a leading family lawyer whose divorce clients have included the Prince of Wales and Sir Paul McCartney.
He also anticipates other judges to get on board, as well as some family solicitors and barristers.
Annual funding of £150,000 has been raised for the foundation, which would commission research, hold conferences, produce publications and lobby for ‘family-friendly’ policies.
Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show that last year England and Wales saw 119,589 divorces — up by 4.9 per cent on the previous year.
Tax breaks have been promised for married couples by the Prime Minister – although this is opposed by his deputy Nick Clegg.
But Sir Paul said: ‘Governments cannot legislate stronger relationships into existence. Ultimately, more and stronger marriages will result from individual choices, behaviour and culture. We will seek to influence those choices.’

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A VOICE FOR MEN

Spottswood Rice, the Ultimate Hero Father

December 27th, 2011 by Glenn Sacks, MA, Executive Director

The Hero Father. In the face of a family court system that is stacked against him, he fights a long, hard battle to remain a meaningful part of the lives of the children who love and need him. The press rarely, if ever, talks about the Hero Father. They’d rather vilify “deadbeat dads,” real or imagined.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning…

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them…If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice…”

But even the best among us could learn much from a Hero Father of a different era—a former slave named Spottswood Rice.

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Australian Government in conjunction with Family Court Judiciary deliberately delivering child abuse, Bigotry and fraud.

Monday, 19 December 2011 Time 08:00 until 10:00 A peaceful protest rally outside the Brisbane Magistrates Court 240 Roma Street Brisbane and spread the word.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Story-Bridge-Protest/243252119074360

We need to focus on the next elections and when LNP get power.

What we need is equal rights, how do we negotiate with LNP to get new Family law reforms our Kids need.

Like Brazil now has anti Alienation Law, we need to ask LNP for the same.

www.fathersunionaustralia.com

Family and friends are here to offer moral support to Nathan as he appears in the Brisbane Magistrates court for scaling and demonstrating from the Story Bridge.

The sheer desperation he must have been dealing with given is continued lack of access and visitation with his son.

Australian fathers deserve strong leadership and support from government and desire fair and reasonable outcomes in Australian courts as a basic human right ratified by the Australian people.

To highlight the daily issues Australian fathers have with child access.

We actively supports all parents having child access issues and request any parent in the country dealing with custody and child access issues including those making payments through the child support agency to contact us.

ALIENATION is CHILD ABUSE

We have been ignored by the Government and the Regent Governor General.

AUSTRALIA’S CORRUPT COURTS HATE CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND THEIR FATHERS

We are asking for a Royal Commission to investigate the plight of Children and
fathers faced with ALENATION and CHILD ABUSE at the hands of CORRUPT MANIACLE VEXATIOUS and ABUSIVE JUDICIARY.

THE RISE AND FALL WOMEN AGAINST MEN EQUALITY ONLY EQUALITY ALWAYS

We are now open to submissions for a joint written appeal to the Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall and Princes
William and Harry Clarence House, London, SW1A 1BA.

Join us add your thoughts and voice here

www.fathersunionaustralia.com

Child abuse needs to be tackled on all fronts to prvent it, we want to prevent it, we need to prevent it, we need to provide a community which refuses to condone violence against its most vulnerable members, OUR CHILDREN.

Former student sues LSE over its ‘gender bias’ against men Tony Bonnici 5 Sep 2011

The London School of Economics is facing legal action after a former student claimed its gender studies course was sexist – against men.

Tom Martin, who quit the university after six weeks, claims in papers lodged at the Central London county court that lecturers ignored male issues.

He is claiming some £50,000 citing breach of contract, misleading advertising, misrepresentation, and breach of the Gender Equality Duty Act.

The 39-year-old, who attended the university last year to take up a Gender, Media and Culture Masters degree, said there was “systemic anti-male discrimination”. But he said an internal investigation carried out by the university in the wake of his complaints found “no evidence” of bias.

Mr Martin, who is representing himself, said: “The core texts we had to read before each class were typically packed with anti-male discrimination and bias – heavily focusing on, exaggerating, and falsifying women’s issues perspectives, whilst blaming men, to justify ignoring men’s issues. There was no warning of this sexist agenda in the prospectus.”

He added: “They simply refuse to acknowledge the research which contradicts the ‘women good/men bad’, or the ‘women victims/men perpetrators’ storyline.

“Science does not come into it at LSE’s Gender Institute. Like a religion, the curriculum simply insists, by repetition, attempting to drum the anti-male agenda into the students.”

The university’s legal team has asked for the case to be struck out, claiming the core texts were not compulsory, merely recommended readings, and that the texts were equally available for both men and women to read, so therefore did not directly discriminate against men. The team also argues that “any discriminatory effect [against men] was plainly justifiable”.

Woman charged with torture after child found dead in Cairns house

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by: By Kate
Higgins and wires
From: The
Courier-Mail
November 29, 2011
6:12PM

Woman, 27, man, 22 charged over girl’s death
Girl’s body was found at a Cairn’s property
Toddler dies after washing machine
‘punishment’

Police were called to a Westcourt home where they found the body of the
8-year-old about 9.30pm last night.For more updates as the story develops visit The Cairns
Post.A woman was questioned and this morning charged with two counts of assault
occasioning bodily harm while armed and one count of torture.

A 22-year-old man has also been charged over the death after further police
investigations into the girls’ death.

He has been charged with one count of cruelty to a child under 16 years and
will face the Cairns Magistrates Court on December 15.

Resident Desley Holt was shocked by the incident, the ABC reported.

“Absolutely devastated – I’ve got grandkids that age,” she said.

Police investigations are continuing.

Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations
are asked to contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333
000 or crimestoppers.com.au.

A protester called Nathan has climbed the Story Bridge

A protester called Nathan has climbed the Story Bridge, causing police to close three lanes of traffic.

Nathan explains that his protest is against the Family Law Courts.

“The Family Law Courts of Australia and the Federal magistrates court department of child Services are an absolute disgrace. They cause more harm and more abuse than anything else.”

Nathan says he hasn’t seen his son for months.

Ash, Camilla & Luttsy with stand-in Dan spoke directly to the protester harnessed to the top of the Story Bridge at 6:30am.

Nathan is right and needs support … let us know if you know Nathan … Show some support leave a comment for Nathan

You are not alone;

please don’t hesitate to ask for support www.fathersunionaustralia.com

superoxy on November 29, 2011 at 4:59 pm said

Nathan you are a trooper mate. Your message was superb against the disgusting family court judges who will burn in hell for their role scandalising of children and denying fathers time with their children and losing all their assets in the process. You deserve a medal. I would love to protest all week outside that festering monolithic court and tell the world the same message.

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