Dads on the Air:
Tuesday 21 August 2007
As well we have a brief call from Tony Miller from Dads In Distress, a self-help organisation with meetings around the country which continues to do a marvellous job saving the lives of distraught men and mopping up the mess of our family law and child support systems.) Tony is pleased to announce that at the last minute his organisation has been given funding sufficient for it to survive over the next four years through the actions of the Minister for Families Mal Broug
The Howard government has silenced most of the men's movement by either funding them or marginalising them; and it smugly thinks it has neutered dads and family law reform as an election issue. What the government was too stupid to realise was that a significant body of votes, enough to keep it in government, went with the dads and their numerous supporters in the community. Instead, as we have said so often, the liars, the lawyers, the bureaucrats and the social engineers won the day .
And now they say that Rudd is anti men too
Mainstream women, who love the men in their lives and believe in equality for men and women, are poorly represented by the screeching anti-male feminist hate groups which the government funds. This funding of extreme anti-father groups distorts the public debate and distorts the government's own perception of reality. It gives credence to elite liberal opinion which pretends that fathers don't count in their children's lives. But in the end,the great unwashed will have their say.
An examination of the "Dads of the Air" web site will illustrate just how powerful and influential they are with a mammoth list of supporters that we have not yet seen for any “mother’s rights”associations. In fact funding has been grossly cut for all women’s services under the Howard Government. We have asked for clarification of exactly who are these "elite liberals and the "extreme anti-father groups" who are receiving abundant funding, but have had no response.