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Ros's avatar

Honesty in the internal investigative process would Improve the QPS. When the police union looks after Commissioned officers and not non commissioned officers it allows a Commissioned officer to target a person they don’t like. A person can be an exceptional operational officer &be targeted. A cop on drugs has more chance of being supported than one who has fallen foul of a Commissioned officer. There is always an officer who will lie to brick the non commissioned officer. It can be so upsetting for family. It does not surprise me that they are short. Katrina Carroll’s actions that saw 2 officers killed

was typical & her appointment was just Annastacia Palastazac wanting to have a woman. Katarina did not do her homework re the Wallumbilla property. She was one who would stitch an officer up for another buddy, & lie her head off.

Jamie's avatar

Hopefully Bettina will post something about this but I received an email from (He’s part of an organisation called Kilo4Delta which has ambitious plans for change, including a malicious prosecution class action.) the Kilo 4 Delta and from Lucas Cattell and we have 23 days left to sign these petitions..

🔴 APPROVED FEDERAL PETITIONS — OPEN NOW

1️⃣ Stop Suicide-Causing Abuse

Calling for national laws to address prolonged psychological abuse that foreseeably leads to suicide or self-harm.

✍️ Sign: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8820

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2️⃣ Stop Federal Systems Abuse

Addressing the weaponisation of courts, digital reporting systems, and federal processes to harass and coerce.

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Calling for parental alienation to be formally recognised in law as psychological child abuse.

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4️⃣ False Allegations Destroy Lives

Addressing knowingly false allegations that cause serious psychological, financial, and reputational harm.

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Calling for national laws to address malicious child-withholding and interstate parental abduction within Australia.

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You need to be a citizen of Australia or a resident.

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Kee Roe's avatar

This is happening in the education field as well. Especially in lower elementaries, where more conservative males (teachers, staff) face false accusations in order for some to gain local political or employment leverage.

Charlie's avatar

Any scoop on the Steadfast situation. CEO went back to work after a week but the whole industry (women) saying the women got thrown under the bus and ceo m and is a creep and just had a board covering his back. I hate how the corporate world functions but I don’t want to jump to the conclusion that is how it happens. Don’t even know what the allegations were.

Charlie's avatar

A family member copper certainly exhausted at hearing the words “victim survivor”. Didn’t elaborate but I could read between the lines. He did say it is common having to lock up when they go to pick up their kids and did not know there was a AVO cause they couldn’t miss work and attend court or didn’t open their mail.

Dr. Nicole Mirkin's avatar

There’s no question that false allegations harm individuals and strain systems. But framing domestic violence responses as a “war on men” ignores the overwhelming data on gendered patterns of harm. We can talk about police burnout, resource allocation, and due process without minimizing the reality of domestic violence or painting women as the enemy.

Ros's avatar

Women are the enemy when they make false statements to get control of property and child/children. When an independent psychristrist gives evidence and the family court ignores it; it is a concern.

Greg Allan's avatar

If the rhetoric targeting boys and men over these matters were used to target any other group there would be massive protest.

Kaydee's avatar

Nicole

It can’t be ignored the harm caused by false allegations, we see men incarcerated, lose their careers & children and in desperation suicide. I as a mother have seen what false allegations do to a man. There is certainly a disparity when all men’s complaints are ignored. As you have put it ‘painting women as the enemy’ is rightly so when they lie to destroy their ex partners out of revenge. You really need to walk in the shoes of those you appear to flippantly disregard. Remember Dr! there is always 2 sides to a story, not just manipulated data.

Dr. Nicole Mirkin's avatar

I’m not dismissing the harm caused by false allegations, they are devastating. My point was simply that framing domestic-violence responses as a “war on men” doesn’t reflect the broader data or what we see in the system. Individual experiences matter, and so does the larger context. We can acknowledge both without turning women into the enemy or ignoring gendered patterns of harm.

Ken Lydon's avatar

If women think they have been “turned into the enemy” then they only have themselves to blame , many women use the DV laws as a weapon to hurt the men in their lives out of spite or revenge or some misguided idea of social justice. And just what does “gendered patterns of harm “ mean? It sounds like more of the usual feminist nonsense .

Dr. Nicole Mirkin's avatar

Im not disagreeing with you. In relationships, people often let things go until they feel hurt, and then those same things can get used as a weapon. And while it’s usually easier for people to believe it when men cause harm, I’ve also seen women do the same. I don’t see it as a men-vs-women issue. Some men don’t speak up because it feels too vulnerable, and when they do, they’re not always taken seriously because they’re ‘bigger’ or expected to handle it. Harm isn’t gendered — it happens on both sides. I understand your point; I just think there’s more to it.

Kaydee's avatar

A “war on Women” is a appropriate term when there definitely is a war coming from the feminists, I for one are happy that men are finally standing up to the false narrative that women are the victims. What do women expect when men come out swinging ( metaphorically speaking), why should they sit back and cop the provocation coming from certain groups. Unfortunately women themselves have turned themselves into the enemy. What women do to destroy their ex partners is downright evil. Having first hand knowledge how governments are willing to manipulate data, I, like many women do not take much notice to data. The war against men is certainly not getting sympathy from all women, there are mothers, sisters, aunts & grand-mothers who certainly not sympathetic to the sisterhood. I acknowledge that there are very tragic outcomes sometimes for both genders when there is a relationship breakdown, yet through the media only these tragedies are highlighted as DV against women, this is certainly not the case. Men are violated, coercively controlled and even killed. Highlighting all data would certainly give a more accurate picture. I am not seeing this from media, government, professionals. Thank God we have Bettina.

Paul's avatar

Anywhere men still have any respect from the public for their work, there are feminists trying to destroy that respect. Who remembers during the last major bush fires in 2019, when Sherelle Moody, flanked by a greens senator (I think Larissa Waters) said that firefighters were basically returning home after fighting fires only to beat their wives.

Jamie's avatar

This site might interest the Australian voters: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au

Especially when one forgets things around about election time.

Ken Lydon's avatar

This article shows what can happen when police bow to political pressure , ideally it should never happen as it can be dangerous for citizens when extreme governments get into power . A police force should have its own independent doctrine based on the principle that all persons are equal before the law , that justice is blind . This should be protected at all cost and political interference discouraged.

Had police forces done just this and refused to play the feminists game think how much more respect they would now have ,instead they are a laughing stock , weak men who threw principles out the window just to please the “ women” .

Ros's avatar

I agree Ken. Police should not have police investigating police! Their ethical standards committee is just a joke!

Ken Lydon's avatar

Thanks for the comment , yes police investigating police never works , here in WA , a case I’ve mentioned before , about a man shot and killed by police ,in his own home he was unarmed and had done nothing wrong. The police covered for the cop and refused to charge him . We are still fighting for justice here ,and now with One Nation senators in the WA parliament , questions will be asked hopefully leading to changes , which could be nation wide. Neither of the major political parties wanted to help , MPs are scared of any confrontation with police.

Phil Shehan's avatar

The AGE and SMH are at it again with this story:

Victim-survivors are being wrongly identified as perpetrators, services claim

So I sent the following comments. They are baseed on Bettina's articles. In fact direct copy and paste without attribution constitutes plagerism, but giving Tina credit would have led to instant cancellation. As it is they were not published anyway. I wrote two comments due to space limitations but are combining them here:

With many accusations of family violence coming down to He said/She said, it is unsurprising that there will be misidentification of victims and perpetrators. The 12% figure quoted in the article does not say how many of the misidentifications involve actual male victims.

Unfortunately the default position advocated by feminists is that women are always victims, never perpetrators and these people control many of the organizations dealing with these matters.

The Tasmanian Police recruited a woman to train police how to evaluate claims without masking assumptions. The Police initially told her that this was exactly what they wanted. But the backlash from feminists led to her being dismissed.

False accusations, usually by women, are regularly used in Family Court proceedings to deny fathers parental rights. Ironically, police officers themselves are particularly susceptible to this as the force is keen to demonstrate that they take these matters seriously.

In one case of many “Liam’s” wife made various historic assault accusations against him. Initially the investigating officer told him that he’d determined the allegations were false and he would have them withdrawn. But when this officer returned to his police station, he was overruled by senior officers who said that because Liam was a former police officer he had to be held to a higher standard. He was charged with four counts of domestic violence assault dating back 8 years.

Eventually the matter was heard in court, and the allegations dismissed by a very experienced magistrate who was scathing about the charges, saying that they were clearly designed to gain advantage in a family law matter and should never have ended up in court. They were dismissed due to insufficient evidence – with costs made against the police.

The very next day Liam’s ex-wife went back to the same police station and made new allegations which led to another protective violence order. That too was ultimately dismissed but only after the violence order had influenced family court proceedings, denying him contact with his children.

I experienced the "Believe Women" mindset when as a medical research scientist in a university I drew attention to bullying BY women which saw colleagues resigning. I was unlawfully dismissed without benefit of a misconduct hearing. Insisting on investigation by the university led to me being charged with criminal offences. Unfortunately for my accusers and the women in the university staff and solicitors offices a criminal trial involves presentation of evidence, and I won the case.

None of the women at the university were reprimanded or lost their jobs

A few years later the department I warned about collapsed like a house of cards. It no longer exists.

Kaydee's avatar

Thanks Bettina for your accurate reporting with ex police and their stories. All I can say from experience of Queensland policing it is true true true.

julok39's avatar

Bettina, men should not be surprised by abuses growing with time on the part of alleged "victims".

It's all the fault of special politicians I call "victimisers".

They know before hand that victims will ask for rewards and they contrive political programs to be elected.

Once in power, they introduce laws pomoting" women 's victims" in administrations they like (education, civil servants, justice ...) to get better political powers and big money and be reelected.

We can see this mecanism in all "victimisms". It's a sure way to impulse abuses and be reelected..

"No fault" divorce and Obama " Dear Collegue letters" are good ewamples. The abuses in judicial laws for women only, were predictable and their worst consequencies on marriage and the sex war, too !

That's why all "victimisms" end badly.

But "Victimisers" don't care, so long as they enjoy big profits for the times everybody understand the falsehood.

VICTIMISERS are social dangers and must be OUTLAWED at once !

Farley's avatar

Where else but QLD hey......

After three murder attempts by my ex-wife and still being targetted, I had the police come to charge me because I told the truth online.

Instead I told them flatly that they for nearly 4 years have watched on and denied me justice to the point she ended up beating up her own daughter, selling her horse float, stealing her horse, and trying to sell it, and still they didn't charge her.

I reminded them of the mushroom murderer and how the police effectively killed 3 people, almost 4, because they wouldn't dare believe a man being targetted by his wife and how weak it is.

I pity them for being gutless.

I also reminded them that their DV specialist sergeant told me in the months leading up to this "not to bother them again" and "if it was me I'd be in jail" and "we won't charge her because it will make your kids hate you if she goes to jail".

I told them they effectively took my rights away and my children's rights, and that they are beholden to government agenda in favour of feminist political agenda.

For an hour they tried to telle I'm the problem and I told them how they are weak with no life skill and people like me would last in the police force because I'd tell the the truth.

In the end they said, have a nice night and left.

Useless unionists with no life skill and can't see the forest for the trees.

Richard Rogers's avatar

Dirty cops attacking other cops with lies and false accusations, no wonder the system is broken. If cops stood up for themselves and refused to falsely accuse innocent people of domestic violence. This would all come to an end. The cops have all the power and unfortunately all the corruption that goes with it.

RegieRoger's avatar

when you demonise the people you pay to protect society what do you expect will happen.

bloke's avatar

I have said it on many occassions that even trying to watch movies or series at the moment is ridiculous. If within the first 10 minutes you havn’t heard about divorce or family issues it is unusual. it is even more frustrating when your partner is sitting next to you going ‘yeah stick it to him’.

This type of suggestive violence is accepted as being the norm when it is just a reflection of the general push designed to divide families which is hapenning more often than you think.

even in close family circles I have noticed for years now the way things changed with increases in matriarchal dominance as if they were the only ones with an answer on how to do things. Usually they were just a mirror of the media.

It is definately time to reel it in and push loving family values and an environment where good old fashioned conversation exists again.

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Jamie's avatar
Dec 6Edited

Living in Switzerland and having to learn German I saw in a lot of movies, mostly German crime movies on the Tele, how unprofessional the police acted. I understand more words now so it is slightly different but the observable body language can sometimes be frightening.

I've gotten to the point where I think it is all propaganda in movies! One can watch these movies and think, "I'd better tell the police everything". I love it when the suspect refuses to answer anything without their lawyer.. but even then, one could think, 'if you have nothing to hide, then tell all'...

Over the years, I've begun to think: if everyone refused to answer the police without a lawyer present the number of unsolved crimes might sky-rocket!!!

In some series of crime movies the amount of brutality as decreased but one series from Berlin is still aggressive as hell. I like going to Berlin and it has a difficult history but if I believed some of what I saw in the movies, I'd never visit the place...

But don't get me wrong, even in the movies, the Police should be doing their job without politics or bosses who are trying to further their own careers and the police are definitely not Social Workers. It's all entertainment BUT it has an impact on those who watch. I've cut back on watching brutal crime movies. Just give me an old fashioned Miss Marple where people used their brains to sort it out!!!

*edited some spelling..