First FAHSCIA then LFAA???

Now this is interesting!

First we have Fahscia spending a lot of time here reading the blog and in particular posts relating to funding, and then next thing, we have Lone Fathers Association cronies showing up and reading the same entries. Coincidence? We think not!
It seems Barry Williams has some friends in high places maybe?

We think this needs referring to an apropriate authority!

Barry Williams Resigns from LFAA

CAIRNS NEWSPAPERS > LOCAL NEWS
Lone fathers do it tough -->

George Donnelly, President of the Cairns Lone Fathers Association knows first hand, the hardships men endure when going through separation.

It’s a truism to say there are no winners in a divorce.
Men in particular are often hit hard, dealing with loss, separation and courts which many men say rules in the favour of women.
Some men, faced with these challenges, give up the fight.
George Donnelly, President of the Cairns branch of the Lone Fathers Association has experienced divorce first hand and now offers help and support to other men facing similar circumstances.
“I got involved in the Lone Father’s Associations in the 90s.
I had a wife and a house and kids and I grew up in the old fashioned way.
I came first and then my wife came along and the kids came along and I was responsible and I worked hard and I did that for 25 years.”
When George’s wife met someone else, she also took out a twelve - month domestic violence order against him, which stated, “she feared he may at some time become violent.”
“I was the second person in Australia to get one of these, they’d just introduced them.
I was kicked out of my house of 28 days and told never to go back there again,” he said.
“I started protesting because I felt the law was wrong.
You didn’t have to prove anything, you just had to say, ‘I fear.”
“I got involved because of the injustice of it, I had no say, and I virtually didn’t exist.
I didn’t like that you could be taken out of your house on a word and have no rights, no rights.” “I stood for three days in the rain protesting, in Canberra.
Barry Williams, Ex-President of the Lone Father’s Association came along and said, ‘why don’t you spend your energies helping us?’ and that’s how I got involved.”
Remarried and living in Cairns, George runs the Cairns branch and says there’s about 20 blokes involved at the moment. “People come and go as they get their problems solved.
We don’t have regular meetings, it’s more informal support.” George says there are many who need help and he’s glad he’s been able to make some difference.
“The thing I’ve been able to do is grow my life back again, but also help a lot of people. No matter how angry you are, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.”
He said The Lone Father’s Association encourages parents to seek support and sustain their children within a happy positive family environment.
Their website can be accessed at lonefathers.com.au Father’s needing support can contact George on 0438 465 883.

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Georgie Girl Comments on Barry Williams

Georgie Girl left these comments but we felt they deserved to be on the front page. Thanks Georgie Girl for further exposing the senile old man known as Barry Williams.




georgie.girl76 said...
Barry Williams is a damn idiot. He is protecting violent, moronic men that have convinced themselves that they have done nothing wrong by bashing the hell out of a woman. How tough of them! And to pretend to care about the children involved, when all these recently separated men do is rob their children and ex-wife or partner blind by spending all the money and lying to child support about how much they earn, so they can spend it all on themselves and more than likely, their new piece of ass that they are in bed with!!! What a total moron.


August 14, 2009 7:37 AM
georgie.girl76 said...
boo hoo Barry. Just because you were one of the only men to have a supposedly (which I totally doubt) 'real' case in which you were the victim...grow balls you woman hating spastic.


August 14, 2009 7:39 AM
georgie.girl76 said...
What a hypocrit you are. Your child, Amanda Williams had an affair with my husband for 3 years, and is still in bed with him (hope they burn in hell). I was married to him for 13 years and have 4 children to him. He bashed the hell out of me for 16 years. You have bred a woman that is following in your disgusting hyptocritical footsteps.You deserve the very very worst in life. Rot in hell the lot of you.


August 14, 2009 7:48 AM
georgie.girl76 said...
Oh my GOD Barry, are you a total idiot????Here is a little bit on info that leaves me speachless:"Back in session, Barry Williams, the president and founder of the Lone Fathers Association, prosecutes some of the familiar themes of the men's rights movement in a mild tone sometimes at odds with the strength of his rhetoric. "Both men and women are, in fact, equally likely to be perpetrators of violence in relationships, although women are somewhat more likely to be seriously injured," he declares.Shit man, are you living on a different planet? You must be doing some serious drugs or something. Maybe you got dropped on your head at birth. Grow up and get an adult view on the world little boy. Just because you are old, does certainly not make you wise. You are a PERFECT example.


August 14, 2009 8:04 AM
georgie.girl76 said...
The more I read of your completely useless, unfounded satements, the more I belive you have a very limp grip on reality. You think that the patriarch has transformed into a matriarch?? Oh dear. You should get a little more informed and get into a little more reality. And look in your own backyard.
August 14, 2009 8:10 AM


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Barry Williams Exaggerating Again

The male backlash

By Farah Farouque
June 25, 2005

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What has made the dominant sex feel like victims?

Paul Black is not the sort of bloke to take to the streets in protest. But this week he did something atypical: fuelled by intense feelings of frustration, he got in his car and made the long trip from Mulgrave to Canberra to attend a two-day conference of the Lone Fathers Association.

"I don't see myself as a radical, I'm not the sort who wants to go ripping out letterboxes or shouting slogans," says this new recruit to the men's movement. "But the inequalities that were there for women 20, 30 years ago are now there for men. The pendulum has swung from too many opportunities for men to too many opportunities for women."

Black has entered the organised men's movement along a well-worn path: relationship breakdown. There are up to 200 men's groups in Australia, according to estimates - and many could be called estranged fathers' groups. They bear names from Dads in Distress to the cuddly sounding Fatherhood Foundation, and typically attract men in midlife. While the groups claim a growing membership, the extent of their support is unknown. The Lone Fathers Association says it helps 30,000 men a year, but their paid-up membership is 9000 nationally. However, La Trobe University researcher Michael Flood says the number actively agitating in the men's movement would be no more than 2000.

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What makes them remarkable is that they subvert the traditional paradigm of social activism in that they represent the interests of the dominant group in society. Or do they? The argument these men's groups mount, with growing political muscle, is that they are getting an unfair deal, not only when it comes to family law issues but in other areas such as men's health. There is a growing lobby for free prostate screening, boys' education - crystallised in a federal push for more male primary teachers - and even domestic violence.

Blokes in their 30s and 40s who are on low incomes and are not partnered are in a diabolical situation."
Bob Birrell, demographer

In Canberra, over two days of sometimes torrid testimonials, Black, 39, took heart from the shared experiences of men who, like him, had undergone unexpected separation from their spouses.

Two years ago, Black returned from work one evening to find his de facto partner had left home with their baby daughter.

"She was just six months old," he says forlornly. As he clutches a "showbag" stamped with the logo of the Child Support Agency (it contained pen, pad and instructive government literature), he reveals the source of his feeling of powerlessness: "I've only seen my daughter five times since then."

Back in session, Barry Williams, the president and founder of the Lone Fathers Association, prosecutes some of the familiar themes of the men's rights movement in a mild tone sometimes at odds with the strength of his rhetoric. "Both men and women are, in fact, equally likely to be perpetrators of violence in relationships, although women are somewhat more likely to be seriously injured," he declares.

He warns his membership to be on guard against "further development of an ideologically based domestic-violence industry funded by the taxpayer". "There is a very serious issue of discrimination here," he says.

It's these sorts of arguments that bother researcher Michael Flood about the growing influence of groups such as the Lone Fathers, a peak body formed 32 years ago around the time the Family Law Act was established. The group is now federally funded.

This week's conference attracted two federal cabinet ministers - Family Services Minister Kay Patterson and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock - to Wednesday's opening. Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward spoke the next day.

Flood does not dismiss serious issues men contend with: old certainties have been swept away as women's roles have changed. He has researched the intensity of the loneliness felt by many men.

The loneliest men of all, a survey published this year concludes, are sole fathers rearing children. More generally, when males hit midlife they feel most isolated, especially if they live alone.

Yet Flood believes a more nuanced approach is needed than simply railing against domestic-violence programs.

"We need to address men's pain in these areas, but without blaming women or putting children at risk," he says. "Yes, men can now cry on TV, but the institutionalised power relations between and among men and women have hardly gone away."

Eva Cox, who was at the barricades as a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby, believes men's rights groups are making the mistake of using some of the oppositional "victim strategies" that women once deployed but which, in retrospect, did not necessarily serve them well.

"They are blaming a lot of what's going wrong on women for taking things away," she says. "But we are not running the world, sorry. Where are the female law partners? Where are the female senior surgeons? . . . If you are looking for men in primary schools, tip them all out of the principals' offices."

While citing the continuing disparity between men and women's pay - for every dollar men earn in full-time work, full-time women earn 85 cents - Cox is not unsympathetic to the plight of low-skilled men, many of whom have lost the opportunity to do their fathers' and grandfathers' jobs.

Economist Bob Gregory has tracked the impact of the decline in manufacturing on men's income. In 1982, about 500,000 men of working age were on welfare. Now, there are about a million men on benefits and the job boom over a period of apparently unprecedented prosperity has barely reached them.

Monash University demographer Bob Birrell, who conducted a study of the clients of the Child Support Agency - which has 90 per cent of Australia's separated parents on its register - concludes that most separated fathers come from the ranks of the poor and low-paid. "Marriage is closely associated with the resources men can bring into a relationship," he says.

In a separate study on partnering, Birrell found the greatest decline in partnering rates in Australia was among low-income men.

"Blokes in their 30s and 40s who are on low incomes and are not partnered are in a diabolical situation," he says.

Paul Black, who made the lonely journey back from Canberra yesterday, counts himself luckier than some of his contemporaries. He has a stable trade as a plumber, but the loss of his daughter and relationship has left him deeply confused.

"Towards the end, we were fighting about the housework," he says. "But I thought there were two roles there: she didn't work, so she was the homemaker and mother. I was supposed to be the provider and father."

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WE guess Barry Williams has to justify all of that government funding somehow. Barry we challenge you to provide 500 names of the 30,000 men that you have "helped". Is this like the 5 men a day that you stop from committing suicide??

We know that there are less than 2,000 men who are responsible for the Fathers Rights movement in Australia because we have their names. The creation of false identities are a deliberate attempt to fool the public into thinking there are more of them but they are definitley a very small minority group albeit very loud and aggressive (which is exactly why they lost their families in the first place we think). They are just playground bullies in mens clothing.

This Is Barry Williams Version of Events Regarding MAACS

Barry Williams still telling BIG PORKIES. Our comments in red.


Supporting services - the story of MAACS, and activities by Government Departments

The Mens’ Accommodation and Crisis Service (MAACS), run by the LFA ACT, was
established by Minister Stefaniak in the ACT in March 1999.
MAACS was designed to provide emergency accommodation and support to fathers, and in many cases also their children, left homeless as a result of domestic discord. (But you got Stefaniak to tell the Government enquiry that you had helped 60 men and 100 children?)
MAACS was the first service of its kind in Australia. (Yeah if ripping off the Australian taxpayer on the fruadulent misrepresentation of Domestic Violence is a first then you can have the accolade.) The LFA had been lobbying for this service for 20 years. It was established against strong opposition from the ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service (DVCS), which has an avowedly “feminist” charter. (You mean it's "feminist" because it helps women and you say that like it's a bad thing to help women and yet here you are saying you're setting up the same service for men and yet if you do it, it should be considered something to brag about?) MAACS received ongoing funding of $100,000 per annum (yes and the rest) , compared with an average of$400,000 per annum per refuge for women’s refuges. (you know yourself that that figure isn't true and that all the refuges received the same $100,000 but that doesn't sound as good when you're whining does it?)
The LFA, during its three-year tenure in running MAACS, filled an increasing part of
the yawning gap in current practice in the ACT in relation to:
- genuine holistic case management and coordination with other relevant
services for men and their children. This included, importantly, assistance in
obtaining legal advice and legal aid; (where was it stated that you were required to provide legal advice, your funding was for accommadation for homeless men and children)
- information services for men about relevant issues and services; (where was it stated that you were required to provide information services, your funding was for accommadation for homeless men and children and information on what?)
- advice to supplement and temper that coming from sources such as the now
officially established Office of Women, and from some groups associated with
Partnerships Against Violence, and (where was it stated that you were to provide advice, your funding was for accommadation for homeless men and children)
- peak body consultation with the community about relevant issues. (where was it stated that you were required to provide peak body consulation and to whom?)

In late 2001, the former ACT Department of Education and Community Services
(DECS) decided, following continuing lobbying by certain opposition groups, to put
MAACS out to tender. (as is required by law and also to provide a fair and TRANSPARENT method of funding. And it was put out to tender because when they evaluated the "service" you were providing they found huge problems and terminated your funding.))
For the proper administration ofthe contract with the service provider, it was, in the
LFA’s view, incumbent on the funding authority to act in accordance with the
considerations that: (The government decided to do the right thing and look into your crony relationship with Stefaniak and as a result you lost your position, you don't have any rights then).
- the contract between the service provider and the funding authority
specifically provided that any declared dispute between the parties should be
subject to a mediation process; and (when you lied to the Evaluation tema you lost all rights.)
- there was a requirement to comply with relevant policy guidelines in
formulating the decision to put the service out to tender, a requirement to
carefully consider the criticisms made by the LFA of what was, in this
particular case, considered by the LFAA to be an extremely. faulty
“evaluation”, and a requirement, under Government guidelines, in assessing
tenders to check referee reports back with the referees themselves. (Bottom line is you lied and got caught out.)
It was also, in the LFA’s view, necessary for the proper administration ofthe contract
that the funding authority avoid:
- recording, maintaining, and/or utiising incorrect and prejudicial information
about MAACS’ operations which MAACS had no effective chance to correct
or rebut;
- asserting a requirement under law to do things that were not in fact legally
required ( e.g., to put the MAACS service out to tender), and/or impeding the
LFA’s legitimate political role, by the letting of the tender at a time which
would preclude action by the LFA (e.g., the day before the ACT election); being unduly influenced, in drawing up tender Terms of Reference for the
tender and in making assessments, by the opinions of any other agencies
which may have been opposed to the establishment of MAACS in the first
place, and/or by arranging, for example, for Departmental officers in receipt of
incorrect and prejudicial information, to sit on the tender evaluation panel.
Unfortunately, the above stipulations were, in the LFA’s view, not met.
As to the reasons for why they were not, it not our place to speculate. However, in
the LFA’s opinion, the tender process for MAACS’ successor service was
fundamentally flawed.
The LFA was primarily responsible for the policy initiative leading to the
establishment of MAACS. (Get over yourself. You had an idea to rip off the government, stop patting yourself on the back.) Its successor service played no role in those
developments, apart from some of their leading members actively seeking to block
them. (yeah but at least they were honest.) To replace the initiator ofthe project with the opponent of the project, and a
different ethos, should have required very strong supporting reasons - which were not
available. (you lied and you created a shoddy service that self supportd your own outdated ideals...get over it.)
This, in our opinion, tended to undermine public confidence in the allocation and
distribution of public funds in the welfare and support sector in the ACT, and
damaged the overall ability of the community sector in the ACT to provide this
necessary, unique, and very valuable service to a seriously disadvantaged section of
the community. (No it's people like you who spend a whole lifetime sponging off the tax payers in this country that undermine public confidence.)
MAACS was able, in a high proportion ofcases, to help families not only to deal with
their family crises but also to reconcile in a way that was safe for all the family
members. (What are you implying here...who was safe? The women because you had the men in your government sponsored house of hate? The children , if there were in fact any, certainly weren't safe were they?)
MAACS’s clients were overwhelmingly positive about the service they
received while at MAACS (see attachment). (Do you mean Emily the 10 year old that supposedly wrote the same letter as other people in exactly the same words that you tendered as evidence of your success?)
The LFA believes that, in the interests of fathers and their children in potential marriage breakdown situations, services of this kind should being strongly encouraged, not only in the ACT but in other locations around Australia, but should not be run by self-proclaimed “feminists” or their close associates. (You think they should be run by misogynists like you so you can get paid to sit on your ass all day and whine about women with newly separated men?)

The failure to establish such services would be yet another example of failure to deal
with the many cases where separated families could, with better policies and
administration, have been reconciled, in the interests of both the children and the
other members of the family. (The failure to establish such services means that the government is not going to be taken in by leeches like yourself who mooch off other peoples unfortunate situations and hide behind a faux concern for children.)

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Lone Fathers Association a Leech on Society??

It seems Barry Williams has been conning the Federal Government and the Australian Tax Payer for years. Apart from obtaining Government funding for so called mens health issues and trading on the back of the suicides of men in our society and using statements like these in 2003 to obtain that funding:

"The LFA receives at least 5 calls a fortnight from the parents or wives of men who
have suicided as a result either ofbeing hounded by the CSA or as a result ofthe nonenforcement ofFamily Court access orders. Ifthe Parliament continues to allow these
things to happen year after year, when it is aware ofthe situation, it will be culpably
negligent."

We challenge you Barry Williams to name names. We're sure some families of those that have suicided as a result of the CSA hounding would love to have their voices heard and have the CSA held responsible. Or is it that you lied???

Then Barry Williams saw a new avenue to fund his lifestyle down in Canberra, Get the government to pay for a Mens Crisis and Accommodation Service (MAACS) which surprise surprise did not allow women. What's that? Discrimination? Isn't that what you bleat about now about Womens Refuges? The service was for men AND THEIR CHILDREN to be all placed in one cess pit of violence and anger. If in fact you did get any clients and again we challenge you to name names of people who actually used this service, you thought it was ok to place children in an environment full of suicidal and quite likely violent men that most likely had allegations of child sexual abuse levied against them because as you say yourself, all women do this to gain an advantage in the property settlement? What the hell were you thinking? Thank goodness someone saw some some sense and got rid of you.

"I should finish this preliminary foray into the issues by referring to a major new development in the ACT, namely the establishment of a Men’s' Accommodation and Crisis Service in Canberra (known as MAACS), being run by the LFA ACT.
We are very appreciative of the ACT government's help with MAACS, which opened on 14 April 1999, the first of its kind in Australia. Already it has proved successful. The service has been in use at almost all times, and we have had to turn a number of people away because they did not meet our criteria, e.g. because they were not victims of marriage breakdown or had not been residents of the ACT."

http://www.lonefathers.org.au/policy.php

5. The Lone Fathers' Association's fixed lease agreement with ACT Housing expired in March 2000. From that time the Lone Fathers' Association was on a standard two week Community Organisation Rental Housing Assistance Program tenancy agreement. The Lone Fathers' Association was served with an eviction notice on 21 January 2002, when the organisation made it clear that they would not vacate the premises when their purchase agreement with the Department of Education and Community Services expired on 31 January 2002.

6. The Department of Education and Community Service's purchase agreement with the Lone Fathers' Association allocated $105,859 per annum (excluding GST). An additional $10,000 per annum was recently allocated to MAACS under the Community Capacity Building initiative.

In addition, the department allocated an additional $5,000 per annum to the Lone Fathers' Association to purchase professional supervision services to improve the performance of their workers.

The service tendered for was an extension on that previously purchased by the department. An additional $50,000 was made available from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) for the purchase of outreach support to families who have either recently left a refuge or who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

ame of Organisation	Name of Service	Funding provided in 2000-01 (inc GST)	Funding provided in 2001-02 (inc GST)
Lone Fathers' Association	MACCS Refuge	$113,883	$67, 926

http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/Hansard/2002/week04/1090.htm

"Mr Speaker, the government subsequently decided to provide funding for this service to the Lone Fathers Association, without any transparent decision-making process. The service was funded under a cloud of inappropriate process and we believe it is appropriate, as the new government, to set in train a process that is transparent."

Interesting bit of Cronyism here in that Jim Carter was also the Caretaker. How convenient!
"

MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services. Minister, I refer you to the yet to be resolved saga in relation to the crisis accommodation service for men and men with children, formerly run by the Lone Fathers Association in Belconnen.

Minister, no doubt you are aware that the Lone Fathers organisation did not spend all of the money allocated to it when it was running the service, and that a sum of approximately $20,000 remains unspent. I understand that there is some dispute in relation to who should keep this money. The Lone Fathers have sought to do this, but the department has apparently placed the matter before an auditor and put a freeze on those funds.

Without going into what should happen to that money, would you tell us whether you are you aware that the department has refused to allow the Lone Fathers to pay the former live-in caretaker the money owed to him as a result of the redundancy in the change of contract, and his other entitlements? I understand his entitlements amount to approximately $4,500. Is the minister further aware that the Australian Services Union has advised that this money should be payable to him, and wants it paid to him. Will you, Minister, direct your department to allow Mr Carter to be paid the money that is duly owed to him out of the abovementioned $20,000?

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, the responsibility for this program is now the responsibility of the Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, so I will ask Mr Wood to respond.

MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I am aware of half of that story, that is the half in which there is $4,500 owing in redundancy payments. I am not aware that the $20,000 has been frozen. However, the advice that I have is that such commitment as there is is a responsibility of an organisation. There was a claim earlier that it should be paid by somebody else, by the government or something. The suggestion in reply is, as I recall, that the money owing to the person should be paid out of the remaining funds. If they are frozen, I can see there might be a problem, so I will check the second half of the story and see where we may take it.

MR STEFANIAK: Minister, I do thank you for that, at least, and I will liaise further with you. Will you endeavour to do that as a matter of urgency, as I understand Mr Carter has been seeking what is rightly his for some time now?"

Rightly his eh?

Here is Bill Stefaniak the Liberal MLA that was responsible for a lot of the misallocated funds.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/26/2346611.htm

Here is where Stefaniak tells the Government that despite "homeless men with children" being very rare, Barry Williams is receiving calls "at all hours of the day and night from men with children" in order to defend his friends deception to the government. More lies Barry? Is this the same guys that are threatening to commit suicide? And now it's HOMELESS MEN that you are receiving government funding for instead of men who have been victims of domestic violence? Wow you sure are one busy guy.

MR STEFANIAK (11.09): This matter has been hanging around for a while. I must admit I was a little bit concerned about the government response. Homelessness is a very serious issue. In the latest Chronicle we saw a very sad story about homelessness. Homelessness among men particularly is a distinct problem. The Chronicle referred to some figures that have been with us for almost 12 months. Up to 2,000 single men have been unable to find crisis accommodation. The St Vincent de Paul Society indicated to me and to the committee that they turn away up to six homeless men a night.

It is not common to see homeless men with children. Nevertheless, that is a very real problem. The committee looked at accommodation and the support services for homeless men and their children. The inquiry arose out of a motion I moved in December 2001 in relation to some problems with the contract that was awarded to group to run a shelter in Belconnen for a homeless men and children. That contract cut short the tenure of the group running the shelter at the time, Lone Fathers. There were a number of problems with the way the department looked at that service. There were significant concerns with the report by the so-called independent consultants. There were factual errors, from what I could gather, and there were some real concerns with the way the department accepted that report. There were all sorts of allegations of bias in the way the consultation was done. I thought that with the significant problems the minister should have put everything on hold and have the new minister investigate it. He did not-I think that is an absolute shame-and another group took over.

I said at the time that I was not going to bag the other group. They went in there with every good intention. They were the successful tenderers. Their philosophy was somewhat different from that of the previous runners of the service. The question here is the need and the government addressing the need.

We saw a clear need for not only one service on the north side but also a service on the south side. For months after that, as housing spokesman I kept getting figures from Barry Williams, the founder of the service for children and men in Australia. He was getting phone calls at all hours of the day and night about men with children in crisis. Quite clearly, there is still an unmet need. There is a real need for a similar service on the south side. I am disappointed that the committee report does not go far enough. I think it has a bit of window dressing. It could have made more useful recommendations to the government about this service.

When we think of homelessness, we think of homeless single men and we often think of women with children in crisis needing special accommodation. Compared with other places, Canberra is quite well served with accommodation for women with children. The crisis services do a very good job.

More and more we are seeing men with children being left out on the street. Under family law, once the mother always got custody of the child. I am advised that in about 40 per cent of cases now the father gets custody. That is just one of the changes in our society. Even though a lot of people might not think of men with children being out on the street, their need for crisis accommodation is real.

The service that Barry Williams set up was an Australian first. ....It was a good service that looked after about 60 men and 100 children during its operation. (Name, names Barry) I was very disappointed-indeed, quite angry and even disgusted-that Lone Fathers lost that service and that the government did not look at the matter properly....
"

http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/Hansard/2003/week04/1328.htm

Both Stefaniak and Williams were candidates in the 1992 Elections.

http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections/1992/candidates_92.html

We intend to expose more of this scandal and implore the government to investigate ALL of the funding that has been provided to LFAA.

Barry Williams and Jim Carter it's time you got real jobs instead of living off the Australian TaxPayer like you have been doing for the past 30 years!!! No doubt the next project you apply to have funded from the Australian Government will be to do with the indigenous population because there's money there isn't there and someone has to fund YOUR lifestyle.

Here are the lies Barry Williams told....

Mr Williams, president of the Lone Father's Association, said he did not write or provide any material contained in the paper.

"I was not an author of that story," he told AAP.

"I have no discrimination against gay people - I have a lot of gay friends and I worship their friendship.

"If I'm still an ambassador, I'll work with dark people, foreign people, gay people and everyone, that's my motto," he said.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9684.html#

"Mr Williams yesterday told The Australian that he did not pen any of the offending comments and denied any bias on his part against gays or women.

“Some of my best friends are gay people,” he said.

Mr Williams said he was wild about the accusations levelled against him and would take legal action to prevent damage to his reputation if need be. “If I’m still an ambassador, I’ll work with dark people, foreign people, gay people and everyone, that’s my motto,” he said."

Yesterday, Roxon referred to the statements in 'Gender Matters' as “extremely offensive” and “abhorrent”.

“I immediately sought an explanation yesterday from Mr Warwick Marsh and Mr Barry Williams about comments attributed to them,” Roxon said in a statement issued to MCV.

“Mr Marsh has not repudiated his offensive comments. This makes his position as an Ambassador untenable and I have made a decision to dismiss him from this role.

“While Mr Williams has acknowledged that he put his name to the document with 33 others, he has publicly and unequivocally disowned the views set out in the document.

“He has assured me of this directly, and has expressly stated this publicly. I accept his explanation.”

http://mcv.e-p.net.au/news/roxon-dismisses-anti-gay-ambassador-4557.html

Mr. Williams, however, repudiated the document, which Roxon, according to Australia’s ABC News, called "quite abhorrent." "Look, it is very strong stuff,” Roxon said, “but I think that this is a document that was authored by 34 people. I think that Mr Williams' sins are not having read and taken care what he put his name to," she said. "He has publicly and expressly disassociated himself from any of these comments and I am prepared to accept that explanation."

"Mr Williams told The Age that he often did work for the Fatherhood Foundation but would "have to re-read the paper" before he could endorse its contents again.

Mr Williams said that while he did not support gay marriage, he did not discriminate against gay people.

"I have nothing against gays ... I admire a lot of really good gay people and have some gay friends," Mr Williams said.

"Last year my brother died of cancer and there was a lovely gay couple that looked after him. I'm an indigenous person so I don't discriminate against anyone.''

http://www.theage.com.au/national/health-ambassadors-slammed-over-hate-document-20081126-6ib6.html?page=2

Didn't Barry Williams deny hating homosexuals???

This Media Release was from an archived copy of The Fatherhood Coalition a group set up by Warwick Marsh and Barry Williams (and included Ozydads Lionel Richards, DIDS and the Shared Parenting Council) in 2004. This needs to be sent to Nicola Roxon so she can read the truth about what Barry Williams really feels about homosexuals.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070812003008/www.fatherhoodcoalition.org.au/media_8th_october.htm

MEDIA RELEASE

FATHERHOOD & FAMILY GROUPS CALL FOR

RESTORATION OF MORAL VALUES

The revelation of the true extent of child pornography has shocked all Australians. The fact that community leaders such as teachers, school principals, ministers, policemen, childcare workers, doctors and solicitors have been purveyors and purchasers of such material is almost beyond belief.

The National Fatherhood Coalition calls upon Mr Howard and Mr Latham to bring in mandatory filtering of internet pornography. It also sees a desperate need to further protect our children by legislating against X-rated videos, already available in the ACT and Northern Territory.

It seems that Australia is fast following in the footsteps of the decadent Roman Empire. Philo of Alexandria (approx 20BC – 40AD) recorded the spread of paedophilia in the Roman Empire during the time he lived; ‘Moreover, another evil, much greater than that which I have already mentioned, has made its way among us and been let loose upon cities, namely, the love of boys, which formerly was accounted a great infamy even to be spoken about’.

Analysis of a report on child sexual assaults in NSW showed that the rate of sexual assaults by male heterosexual paedophiles in NSW on female children is horrific. But it also showed that the rate of sexual assaults by male homosexuals and male bi-sexuals on young boys was about 15 times worse!

Warwick Marsh from the National Fatherhood Coalition said today, “We, as men. Must accept that we have been part of the problem because we have refused to make a stand against pornography. The time has now come to say, ‘no more’. Our society and media has been obsessed with sex. Sex is a wonderful thing with the intended moral boundaries heterosexual marriage . If we don’t make a stand our society will sink further into the moral quicksand and paedophilia will become accepted. The role of paedophilia in the decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a warning to our society that our children will become the victims of a much greater evil.

Barry Williams from the Lone Fathers Association said that exposing our children to high risk groups through homosexual adoption was not the way to go because our children need our protection. It is a plain fact that children need a mother and a father, not two daddies or two mummies. Study after study has shown that the safest place for our children is with their biological mother and father. How much longer must our children wait?

Media Contact details for National Fatherhood Coalition

Warwick Marsh: 0418 225212 02 4272 6677 Berkeley, NSW

Barry Williams: 0417 668 802 02 6258 4216 Canberra, ACT

Postal & Web: National Fatherhood Coalition, 217 Nolan St, Berkeley NSW 2506 www.fatherhoodcoalition.org.au

SPCA publish and condone cheating to avoid Child Support

The Shared Parenting Council members including Michael Green, Wayne Butler and Barry Williams have the following advice published on their website, familylawwebguide where they advise payers of Child Support to use "foul means" to resist responding to a Change Of Assessment for Child Support payable to support their children.

	Posted 13 April, 2009, 08:48 PM #24004
Points: 2,110 Joined: 24 May, 2008, 11:04 PM Primary group: Silver Member ','auto','http://www.familylawwebguide.com.au/themes/default/images/forum_navigation/members.png');" class="ocf_poster_member">Bigred Silver Member	Marker I put all my requests etc to them in writing and they try hard to do everything by phone. My advice to anyone reading here is do business by mobile phone and PO box number. Only concede what you wnat them to know and challenge every decision because there is usually a more advantageous position they want admit to. And never instigate a COA, and if one has been started on you resist it by whatever fair or foul means you can find. And keep your CSA paymnets up to date if you can - because when you win on a point, a refund cheque is a badge of honour.

It seems the Gay Rights people are annoyed by Barry Williams too.

Reproduced from Rodney Croome's (Gay Advocates) blog:

Appointment of Mr Barry Williams

This letter from Gay and Lesbian Equality WA to Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, was sent on 27.11.08.

PO Box 420
NORTHBRIDGE WA 6865

Telephone: 0417 890 111
Email: rod@galewa.asn.au

The Hon. Nicola RoxonMinister for Health
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600

27 November 2008

Dear Honourable Minister:

Re: Appointment of Mr Barry Williams as men's health ambassador

I write to you to express our concerns about the controversy surrounding Mr Barry Williams, who has recently been appointed to the position of men's health ambassador as part of the Federal Government's dialogue on men's health issues. We have noted that you have sought assurances from Mr Williams about a document published by the Fatherhood Foundation, in which he is mentioned as a co-author -- 21 Reasons Why Gender Matters -- and we understand you are satisfied with his response that he does not support the contents of that document and repudiates it.

However, we wish to bring to your attention other activities of Mr Williams which may be even more problematic than the aforementioned document.

In the first instance, we wish to refer you to a leaflet published by the Fatherhood Foundation for a forum entitled Dads4Kids. The leaflet is available on the internet at:
http://fathersonline.org/mediareleases/2008%20Media%20Releases/Dads4kids%20Forum%20Reg%20Fm.pdf

This document purports to be a forum organised in June 2008 to oppose the Same Sex Relationships Bill 2008, which at the time was before the NSW Parliament. It is clear that this document indicates it is an anti-gay rally designed specifically to stop the passage of equality legislation in NSW and therefore perpetuate the stigmatisation and hurt of same-sex couples in that jurisdiction.

Among the speakers listed for this anti-gay forum is Mr Barry Williams.

In the second instance, we wish to refer you to a document published by National Marriage Coalition (incidentally, set up by the Fatherhood Foundation and others), in which Mr Williams is mentioned as a signatory to the documents -- The National Marriage Manifesto and the document in the appendix, titled 21 Reasons Why Marriage Matters. This document echoes much of the 21 Reasons Why Gender Matters document and is misleading, offensive and anti-gay.

This document is available on the internet at:
http://www.fatherland.info/ncpp/manifesto.pdf

An example of the misleading propaganda and 'statistics' used in this document is demonstrated at page 17. There is reference to an Australian study of primary school students claiming the reason for poorer educational and health outcomes of children of gay parents is because their parents are gay. However, the study's author attributes the result not to the sexuality of the parents, but the inherent anti-gay attitudes of society towards the children by homophobic individuals and institutions (quoting the study's author, Sotirikos Sarantakos, describes in his book Same-Sex Couples:

"It is difficult to accept that living in a family environment that is condemned by the community, in which homosexuals and their children are subjected to discrimination, disadvantage, negative criticism, humiliation, harassment, embarrassment, exclusion, hostility, injustice and media bashing, offers as good a place to grow as that of heterosexual relationships."

This is just one example of the misleading, deceptive, anti-gay comments in this document.

We also note that the document 21 Reasons Why Marriage Matters has now been formulated into a glossy brochure. It is online at:
http://www.marriage.org.au/why_marriage_matters.pdf

Mr Williams is a signatory to the National Marriage Manifesto and 21 Reasons Why Marriage Matters document.

In the third instance, we wish to refer you to the Lone Fathers Association's journal, in which Mr Williams gives ample publicity to Mr Marsh's Fatherhood Foundation's anti-gay activities. An example is contained in this edition, available online:
http://lonefathers.com.au/newsletter/aug-sep-08.pdf

This publication gives a report (see pages 28-30) of the aforementioned anti-gay rally against the NSW Same-Sex Partnerships Bill, at which Mr Williams was purported to be an advertised speaker.

Indeed, the newsletter report in the Lone Fathers Association newsletter contains the following claim about the NSW Bill:

The Bill promotes homosexual marriage and homosexual adoption and as such promotes ill health and gender disorientation pathology. It would be similar in effect to the state government subsidizing and encouraging smoking, a proven unhealthy lifestyle choice. No government should ever actively promote ill health.

This is anti-gay and offensive. Further, the newsletter report goes on to thank a number of organisations, including the Lone Fathers Association for their actions in opposing the Bill:

In particular the Fatherhood Foundation would like to thank: Shared Parenting Council, Dads in Distress, Lone Fathers Association, Reforming Alliance, Festival of Light, Australian Christian Lobby, Australian Family Association, Marriage and Family Office, Equal Parenting Party, GRANS and many others too numerous to name including many wonderful pro-family state parliamentarians

Minister, our organisation believe these actions warrant further investigation by your Department as to Mr Barry Williams' activities and his linkages to the Fatherhood Foundation's anti-gay activities.

We believe that Mr Williams' behaviour has been offensive to the GLBTI community, and his continued service as men's health ambassador is unacceptable given his activities.

We urge you to again contact Mr Williams and ask for an urgent explanation as to his activities, namely:
1) His activities at the anti-gay Dads4Kids forum, opposing the NSW Bill to provide equality for same-sex couples, in June 2008.
2) His activities with the anti-gay National Marriage Coalition, signing their Marriage Manifesto document and the attached appendix 21 Reasons Why Marriage Matters
3) His activities within his own organisation's newsletter, providing space for virulently anti-gay statements relating to the anti-gay Dads4Kids forum, as published in the August-September 2008 of the Lone Fathers Association's newsletter.

Similarly, we urge you -- after receiving Mr Williams' response -- to make another determination as to his suitability for the position as ambassador for men's health, and advise our organisation accordingly of the findings of your investigation and the outcome of your decision.

We thank you for taking the time to consider this request.

Yours,
Rod Swift
Secretary
Gay And Lesbian Equality (WA) Inc.

Lindsay Jackel SPCA also supports pedophile comments

Lindsay Jackel Victorian Director of Shared Parenting Council is a staunch supporter of Warren Farrell who has been revealed for making pro pedophilic, incest and rape comments.
Warren Farrell said:

""We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting."

""When I get my most glowing positive cases, 6 out of 200," says Farrell, "the incest is part of the family's open, sensual style of life, wherein sex is an outgrowth of warmth and affection. It is more likely that the father has good sex with his wife, and his wife is likely to know and approve -- and in one or two cases to join in."

"“the incest is part of the family’s open, sensual style of life, wherein sex is an outgrowth of warmth and affection.”

"... the writer happened to be at his beach house alone with his attractive fifteen-year-old daughter.... His wife's appendix operation had curtailed his sex for the previous five months... the women on the beach and a few beers had led him into special temptation. When the daughter emerged from the bathroom in a towel, he greeted her in the nude and erect. Although he had never consciously desired incest before he told his daughter he missed sex. Without further prompting, she fellated him...Two weeks later the daughter walked around the house naked until the father approached her. That day he deflowered her to their mutual satisfaction. But the father was careful not to push things. He did not want to hurt his daughter, who seemed to have an active sex life with boys her own age. Several weeks later, the daughter took the initiative again... "

"First, because millions of people who are now refraining from touching, holding, and genitally caressing their children, when that is really a part of a caring, loving expression, are repressing the sexuality of a lot of children and themselves. Maybe this needs repressing, and maybe it doesn't. My book should at least begin the exploration."

""The average incest participant can't evaluate his or her experience for what it was. As soon as society gets into the picture, they have to tell themselves it was bad. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy."


http://justice4mothers.wordpress.com/trish-wilson-responds-to-warren-farrell/

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=dad4life+warren+farrell&hl=en&cr=countryAU&filter=0

Dad4life, matrix, manumit, nuance, J.L. are just some of Lindsay's aliases.

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/fathers/farrell.htm

http://ginmar.livejournal.com/747900.htm

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/04/

Lindsay Jackel is a close ally and friend of Barry Williams of Lone Fathers Association who is also a key member of Shared parenting Council and he published in his NOOS newsletter the article that contained the following comments:

"Fathers need to touch and hold in affirming, non sexual ways. For daughters, sex and affection may become confused if not. This gives a gior greater physical self love, and a sense that she can be unconditionally loved by, men."


It seems there is a common thread amongst these men in not only actively supporting this pedophilic material (Jackel actively defends Farrell wherever he can and seemingly sponsored a visit to Australia by Farrell) but also distributing this material by way of newsletters and emails. Isn't that against the law?

See earlier posts and links about Jackel hanging out on Gay Classified websites and on other forums and his probing questions about males getting raped in jail.

Published by The Lone Fathers Association of Australia

This was published in the NOOS, the publication put out by Barry Williams of the Lone father Association of Australia and Executive of Shared parenting Council of Australia and mens health Ambassador to the Federal Government.

Why fathers are important for daughtersFrom New Zealand's Caring Fathers newsletter, via The Noos, newsletter of the Lone Fathers Association of Australia by Warwick Pudney
Printed in June/July 2003 NOOS

"Children put importance on "real", genetic fathers, It's part of establishing identity.Fathers are responsible for building that part of positive self?esteem that originates from a man. This will help her feel good with men.Affirmation by father helps when dealing with negativity and criticism, or abuse from males.Fathers need to touch and hold in affirming, non?sexual ways. For daughters, sex and affection may become confused if not. This gives a gior greater physical self love, and a sense that she can be unconditionally loved by, men.The father may impart a sense of adventure and confidence in the non?domestic world.The father has an important connection with the outdoors, nature and wild places.A father can give a sense of' secuirty and protection by setting boundaries for the for the girl and preventing hurt and danger to his daughter.For daughters in teen years, it is important to learn how to relate to a man in a safe, confident. affirming and boundary?setting manner. Loving approval from a father may prevent dependence and vulnerability in relationships with males.Fathers have a sense of risk?taking an excitement. They play and explore physical space in a robust manner.Fathers teach things about the world especially in the realm of the rational, ill spartial relationships, and physical action.Fathers support mothers.Fathers give confidence that things can he fixed.Fathers affirm risk?taking and achievement.Some tasks are done equally well, or better by women, but it is good to have two parents doing them.As fathers, we may all fall short from time to time, but the Challenge is to do thing's well."

Lone Fathers/Shared Parenting Council deny women protection from domestic violence

Website of the Lone Fathers Association of Australia and
The Office of the Status of Men and Their Families

Policy Submissions

Resolution Regarding the UN Study on Violence Against Women ("RADAR") (Domestic violence)

Recommends that the ideologically anti-male UN report on “Violence against women" not be implemented by the UN.

1. Whereas, the World Health Organization has reported that twice as many men die from violence ­related causes as women, 1

2. Whereas, men are more than three ­times more likely than women to die from injuries sustained from armed conflict, 1

3. Whereas, 3.5 times as many men commit suicide worldwide as women, 1

4. Whereas, in almost every country around the world, men have shorter life expectancies than women, reaching a 13­ year disparity in the Russian Federation, 2

5. Whereas, a compilation of 195 scientific studies of partner violence concludes, "women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with spouses or male­partners, 3

6. Whereas, according to a Statistics Canada report, 7% of women and 6% of men report violence by a current or previous partner in the previous five years. 4

7. Whereas, according to a recent international study of severe violence among dating couples, 55% was mutual violence, 16% was male ­only, and 29% of violence was female­ only. 5

8. Whereas, the president of the American Psychological Association has recently noted that "Several studies of domestic violence have suggested that males and females in relationships have an equal likelihood of acting out physical aggression, 6

9. Whereas, reports from Africa reveal that domestic violence against men is widespread, but men are reluctant to report the abuses,7,8

And

10. Whereas, the United Nations recently released the Secretary­ General's Study on Violence Against Women,

11. Whereas, the report ignores the fact that half of all partner violence is mutual, and glosses over the problem of male victimization altogether, 9

12. Whereas, the report uses misandrous and inflammatory language such as "patriarchal" in falsely stereotyping men,

13. Whereas, leading family violence researchers around the world have criticized the report's portrayal of domestic violence as being "biased" and ensuring "that both women and men will continue to be victimised in this way,"10

And

14. Whereas, programs similar to those proposed by the Secretary­General's report have caused undesirable outcomes for women, 11

15. Whereas, the report fails to require persons who allege domestic violence to provide objective evidence of abuse, and false allegations are known to result in harm to children,12

16. Whereas, the report also calls for stronger law enforcement and prosecution efforts, which have been shown to result in widespread violations of due process protections, 13

14. Whereas, the result of such domestic violence programs has been to weaken families, bias divorce proceedings, and deprive children of contact from their fathers.14
15.

Therefore, the undersigned organizations urgently call on the Third Committee to:

1. Simply "Note" (but not "Welcome") the recent Secretary­General's report.

2. Discourage implementation of the recommendations of the Study on Violence Against Women until its effects on families and children are analyzed and understood.

3. Request incoming UN Secretary­General Ban Ki­moon to undertake a counterpart Study on Violence against Men.

Mark Rosenthal
RADAR: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting

Australia:
Tony Miller Dads in Distress
Barry Williams Lone Fathers' Association
Micheal Woods Men's Health Information & Resource Centre
Sue Price Men's Rights Agency
John Flanagan Non­Custodial Parents Party
Edward Dabrowski Shared Parenting Council of Australia

Barry Williams Deceiving the Government??

http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?id=2009-02-10.24.2&s=speaker%3A10067#g26.1


Response by Mr Barry Williams of the Lone Fathers Association of
Australia Inc. Pursuant to Resolution 5(7)(b)
of the Senate of 25 February 1988


I am currently the President of the LFAA, and have been a committed advocate for
lone fathers and their families for over thirty years. I established the Lone Fathers'
Association (LFA) in 1973. The Association is now a national organisation and peak
body with Branches in most States and Territories. I am also the National Vice
President and Welfare Coordinator of Parents Without Partners Australia (PWP), and
First Vice President of the Shared Parenting Association (SPCA).
I have been a federal lobbyist in the Australian Parliament since 1976. I was
instrumental in having the Single Mothers' Pension extended in 1977 to include single
fathers, following personal representations made by me to the then Prime Minister,
Malcolm Fraser. This was an important move towards greater gender-equality in
family law. Members of Parliament on both sides of politics have told us that the LFA
is respected for the work it does, and in particular for our strong stand against discrimination of any kind. This support for our work has come, amongst many
others, from Senators Joe Ludwig, Jenny Macklin, Gary Humphries, and Steve
Fielding, and previous Senators Jocelyn Newman and David Brownhill.
Claims by Senator Siewert
As you are aware, Senator Siewert stated in the Senate on 3 December 2008 that
Tanya Plibersek, now (ALP) Minister for Housing and Women's Affairs, had
expressed the view some time ago that the LFAA is an "extreme group". Senator
Siewert said that, "Minister Plibersek…stated that she was proud to belong to the ALP
because if refused to deal with extreme groups such as the Lone Fathers Association. I
wonder how proud Minister Plibersek is now?"
Information from the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs indicates that no such statement was in fact made by Senator Plibersek. What
Ms Plibersek actually said was that, "It makes me proud to be a member of the Labor
Party when I hear that Bob Hawke and Paul Keating are not listening to extreme
voices in this debate". The Lone Fathers Association was not mentioned by Ms
Plibersek at all, nor would it have been at all appropriate to have done so.
Senator Siewert further stated in Parliament that, "During question time today, the
Government justified this appointment (of Barry Williams as a health ambassador),
saying they wanted a diversity of views. Is it the Government's intention to encourage
anti-gay, anti-women, and domestic violence denial? How does this help men's
health?"
Senator Siewert's statement that the Lone Fathers Association is anti-gay and antiwomen and practises "domestic violence denial" is wrong, and in the LFAA's view is seriously defamatory.
The LFAA is not and never has been an extreme group of any kind. The Association
is a moderate and "mainstream" group of fathers and associated family members and
friends who wish to remain part of their children's lives after separation. It has been
recognised as such for several decades, at the highest political level, by successive
Governments from both sides of politics. During this time, the LFAA has made many
well-regarded and influential submissions to government and the Parliament on family
law and related issues.
The LFAA is not in any sense anti-woman. Women account for one third of its
membership and half of its National Committee, and the LFAA has close links with
the gender-neutral, Australia-wide organisation, Parents Without Partners.
Nor is the LFAA in any way anti-gay. It has conducted community services on behalf
of government which fully recognised and respected the equal rights of gay clients,
and was pleased to be able to do this. The LFAA does believe that, at least in the great
majority of cases, children require for their proper emotional and moral development
suitable contact with both their biological parents - but this is not an anti-gay position,
merely a commonsense one.
The LFAA is very strongly opposed to violence against women, and has made this clear on many occasions. The LFAA is, however, also opposed to family violence
against men and children, and has reservations about one-sided propaganda campaigns
against men which create an unjustified anti-male climate of opinion in the
community, encourage false accusations, and fail to provide the help needed by
women, including women who use violence against their children. The "UN report on
violence against women" which Senator Siewert referred to was considered by the UN
representatives of a number of senior western countries, including Australia, to have
displayed an unacceptably extreme gender bias against men, and was not adopted by
the relevant UN committee for that reason. Failure to understand and accept that
decision does indeed, in the LFAA's view, amount to "denial" of the reality of
domestic violence.
Senator Siewert stated in her Parliamentary question that, "…two former prime
ministers (refused) to meet with Mr Williams". This further statement is also wrong.
In fact, I was appointed by the Hawke Government as one of the consultants advising
on the development of the original Child Support Scheme, which was established in
1988. I was subsequently asked by the Deputy Prime Minster of the day, Brian Howe,
to act as a roving ambassador for the Government, and travelled throughout Australia
over a period of two years explaining the new Scheme. Mr Howe was complimentary
about the work done on this project.
I was then subsequently appointed in 2004 by the Howard Government as a member of
the Ministerial Task Force on Child Support, charged with advising on further reform
to child support arrangements. Subsequent to that, I was engaged by the Government
to assist via the Child Support Communications Project by helping publicise the new
Child Support Scheme, and have been complimented by the present Government for
this work.
I was recognised my work for lone parents and their children as recipient of the British
Empire Medal in1980, ACT Senior Australian of the Year Award in 2005, and the
Prestige Regional Rural New South Wales and ACT Achievements Award 2007.
Senator Siewert's incorrect statements have damaged the good name of the LFAA and
caused me and other members of the organisation significant distress.
(Signed)
Barry Williams



See how he hides behind the membership of SOME women in his group. Just who are these women Barry? 2nd wives and grandmothers who are intent on fighting the battle for the husband and the bullying sons? One only has to read the ANTI MOTHER sentiment that is rife on www.familylawwebguide.com.au to see what his opinion is about mothers.
Now here are some comments from Barry Williams and the SPCA and close friends of his. These are definite Anti Gay and Anti woman sentiments. Why wasn't he frank and forthright about his opinions?


"Basically, homosexual men, feeling inadequate in their own masculinity,
admire masculine qualities in others and seek to absorb them through
sexual union."

"Homosexual, lesbian and bisexual young people
were at increased risks of major depression, generalized anxiety
disorder, conduct disorder, nicotine dependence, multiple disorders,
suicidal ideation and suicide attempts." Hang on Barry weren't you spouting in Noos (terrible name that!) that it was separated and divorced men that have to pay Child Support that are committing suicide???

"Statements by some women’s rights groups
Some womens rights' groups have already indicated that they will strenuously oppose the rebuttable presumption of shared parenting,
claiming that children and mothers will under such a regime be at risk of violence from their fathers.
Our comment on that position that it is, indeed, extremely important that children should be protected from violent adults, including
parents. However, that is a powerful argument for having a rebuttable presumption of joint parenting, not an argument against it.
The issues of violence needs to be properly analysed and understood by defining who is actually committing most abuse against
children. The sad facts are that the leading abusers of children are mothers and their de facto boyfriends. An Australian Health and
Welfare Report shows that most substantiated abuse takes place in single parent households, followed by blended family households.
In the case of sexual abuse, children are least likely to abused by their biological father, and in fact less than 1% of this type of abuse
is attributable to biological fathers. The problem lies in sole parent families, not in joint parent families."

"

Part of Williams’s brief as head of his Association is to promote the view that men are as much victims of domestic violence as women. This is a persistent theme in his newsletters. All victims of domestic violence deserve support services, regardless of gender, and all perpetrators deserve appropriate handling via the criminal justice system. Anything that encourages male victims of domestic violence to be more open about their experiences is worthwhile and complements the aims of the men’s health ambassadors program.

But Williams goes to extremes in his advocacy for male victims of domestic violence. In 2006, he was a co-signatory of a response to "the anti-male UN report on 'Violence against women'", which argued that reporting of domestic violence was biased against men, including several claims that women are greater perpetrators of domestic violence than men -- such as "a recent international study of severe violence among dating couples, 55% was mutual violence, 16% was male ­only, and 29% of violence was female­ only."

Saliently, the response also claimed that domestic violence programs "have been shown to result in widespread violations of due process protections... weaken families, bias divorce proceedings, and deprive children of contact from their fathers." That statement goes beyond advocating for male domestic violence victims. Way beyond."

"Not that Williams is entirely the cleanskin about gay and lesbian issues that his comments make him out to be. The Lone Fathers’ Association has given space to Marsh in its newsletters to promote his views on “gender disorientation pathology” and criticise attempts to end discrimination against same-s-x couples as "evil". Williams himself has criticised same-sex couples as unable to provide appropriate “mental and moral development” for children and unequal to heteros-xual couples."

"

Artemis

Thursday, 27 November 2008 11:55:00 PM

Barry Williams is Vice President of the Shared Parenting Council who have a definite anti gay stance if you do some proper research. They are also anti women although they will tolerate and use the second wives of men to further their own cause. Their website is www.familylawwebguide.com.au
Some quotes from some key members of S.P.C.A.:
"A man wanting/having sex with another males is first and foremost a homosexual- and if the other male is a boy it also paedohilia. Once you break one of Gods commands-like no homosexuality- then the others follow, paedophilia, incest, bestiality, sex involving defecation and urination etc. All manner of perversions."

"There can't be a better illustration of the massive impact of the homosexual propaganda and the extent of the control it has over the media"