Australian Attorney-General's Department: "Supporting women to recover financially after separation"

Submitted by Minuteman on Thu, 2018-11-22 03:34

Link here. Excerpt:

'Women and their families will soon benefit from a new package of measures that will provide expanded legal and social support to victims of family violence, and additional services to help families resolve family law disputes.

On 20 November 2018, the Australian Government announced a package of measures to improve women's economic security – the Women's Economic Security Package (WESP).

The WESP includes $98.4 million in new funding for family law services and initiatives, to commence in the 2019-2020 financial year.'

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The phrase "Women and THIER families" often appears in Australian government policy. The possessive pronoun is used deliberately to make it clear that in Australia, family is the empire of women, children are just another kind of property owned exclusively by women, and men are not wanted.
This is reinforced across the board in laws (particularly family law) and policies (family benefits are paid preferentially to mothers) that exclude men from families, family services, domestic violence services and consideration as human beings generally.
Even the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare continues to only refer to men and boys as "males" (dehumanised), but refers to women and girls as women and girls. This "men are animals" attitude is entrenched in government, health, sociology and educational institutions.
So come to sunny Australia where tweeting "killallmen" is considered a fun feminist activity on the national braodcaster, and government considers looking at someone on a bus is sexual harassment (only if the person looking is male). Where 6 men dying every day by suicide and 5.5 men dying every week by homicide is considered a slow start to fixing the wage gap.

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Submitted by rabel111 on Thu, 2018-11-22 06:08

I visited Australia a year ago this month, and noticed that the mainstream media and government had a female centric bias there. The last week I was there before returning to the United States, I read a Sydney Morning Herald article that referred to men in rather demeaning ways. My last stop was in Port Macquarie, where I had a cup of tea with a White Ribbon band around it, and links to domestic violence services for women. The only link for men was a New South Wales organization that encouraged men to reduce their violence, nothing about men as victims. Then my Virgin Australia plane to Brisbane had a large pink ribbon on the outside. A plane with a blue ribbon might have been nice, but fat chance.

To be fair, I did see a poster for a Men's Shed while I was in Merimbula, and something about prostate cancer for men in a men's toilet, so maybe it's not all bad there for men.

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Submitted by mens_issues on Fri, 2018-11-23 19:12