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Debra Parker was my ex wife’s lawyer. She was completely incompetent in her lack of knowledge of our finances. She lied to the court but my lawyer refused to call it out. She is only interested in how much money she can milk from the case. If she was interested in a settlement she would have taken the time to understand the finances. My offers were rejected and only got lower as we got closer to court. She had no concern for the long term irreparable damage her advice was doing to her clients relationship with her kids. Settlement only happened because my ex wife finally believed her accountant rather than Debra Parker.

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Now do psychology.

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This is yet another brilliant & utterly objective essay on one of the pressing issues of the time shortly to become more than just that, -as more men suicide, & as women "get-on-top"..? And who cares? Don't we need de-population?

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The bodies some people are willing to crawl over to get to the top.

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Sadly, it is all about punishing men. Changing laws in order to obtain a conviction.

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I cannot stop thinking how protected some of these women in high places are.

But protected by whom?

Government... politicians and their new rules to control, make everything 'equal', support the so called victims with proper process... the so called System!!!

The other thing is, in watching the Higgins vs Lehrmann case and Lehrmann vs Media, that people are screaming loudly about injustice without actually understanding how the Law works in Reality and I would say a lot of these women/leaders know exactly how to play the game that keeps them in power and seemingly continue to fly below the radar until the shit hits the fan and someone actually is sacked - up until that point it is all just conjecture.

'I watched a news site video of the PM of Australia talking about the Gender Pay Gap and truly he is, along with other politicians, a big fat liar misrepresenting the statistics which are skewed in the first place. Quite honestly, one could think of all the so called dictators on this planet but when I see the PM presenting 'the gender pay gap case' I immediately put him in the same basket as the rest of the dictators!!

I also think that other women will one day wake up that their 'fellow feminists' are actually throwing them under the Bus; if not worse than the 'patriarch' that supposedly rules the world and keeps all women oppressed. Obviously, I missed the memo that said, 'men must oppress all women'.

Let's face it, Lisa Wilkinson could have done better but at the same time she was thrown under the Bus by Ten's lawyers which includes at least one female that I know of!!

Unfortunately, after much inflicted pain these women will prove that they are nothing but Tyrants and the world will see that the so called patriarch was not so bad after all!!!

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But once again this take over is all a result of men enabling them ( the feminist idealogues) to gain the powerful positions they have and it seems no man has the courage to call out their corruption and gender bias.

It is truly astonishing to see how deeply ingrained the notion that women are somehow untouchable and immune from any negative criticism is in our society today. Men in the public sphere be it online, in the media or in the political arena, simply won't take on the feminists.

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Thanks again for speaking up here Tina, you have some idea of my circumstance, and I am about to lodge a complaint to the legal services commission regarding my recent experience. It's not only women that are oriented to feminist ideology, there a are men too. I feel the solicitor and barrister (both male) who purportedly were there to assist me are either indoctrinated, or helpless to contest the feminist underpinnings of family law in my state. The next big challenge for me - who are the people who will look at my circumstance in the legal commission? What ideology will drive their interpretation of the law?

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"The rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female”

- Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative

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The entire industry known as DEI is built around working around the principle of equality while maintaining the narrative that it is a pursuit of such. The only way they can force outcomes satisfactory to them are through explicitly denying equal treatment. Equity is a weasel word coopted to sound benign and hard to challenge.

There is a barely hidden undercurrent of revanchism driving this movement. This is the inherent dynamic of identity politics altogether. "Because in the past a person like you did something bad to someone like me I have the right to demand you compensate me today." This is the essential kernel of all progressive ideology.

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It was feminist barrister Jocelyn Scutt who told me in conversation several years ago that "women shouldn't be subject to mens' laws".

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I wonder why it is that these so-called "women's rights" champions are never heard or seen when it comes to actually protecting biological women from the insidious defiling of their rights as real women. Why don't they put their hands up when we hear about "trans" persons stealing medals and trophies from real women athletes and crying “trans phobia” every time they want to interfere with women’s activities and events??

Where are they when "self-identified trans-women" worm their way into private spaces reserved for real women only, and sexual perverts, rapist and DV criminals who suddenly become "women" so they can abuse the system and assault real women in women's prisons and even live in female ADF quarters?? Schools allow "self-identified girls" into female change-rooms and toilets and brainwash young kids with b/s like gender fluidity, with no mandate or authority.

The list goes on and on, but these "feminist lawyers" et al do nothing to support real women; instead they target the average (innocent) man in the street (just because they are men!) and let the real criminals manipulate them and the courts to the detriment of law-abiding citizens. Not only are they failing in their legal obligations and duty of care to all citizens, they are an absolute disgrace to Australian womanhood!! It’s about time some of them stood up and be counted like a real woman instead of a tool of the anti-women, anti-social, anti-Australian, virtue signalling, brain-dead bigots who are manipulating them like puppets!!

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Feb 25Liked by Bettina Arndt

Trying as hard as I can to see any positive in all of this, I’m now starting to see some.

The gender-neutral expressions “zealot” “ideological unicorn" and "maverick” describe many persons in history, their ultimate demise and the lessons we can take from their actions. Ego can be a dirty word! There are world leaders right now causing mayhem and destruction because of ego. Like others before them, they will eventually fall in humiliation - and the sooner the better!

Similarly, I stand back and look at the bigger picture around the BH case, taking in a scene of destruction. Sure, it’s on a different level, however I’m bemused at the outcomes for most of these participants. Many of them staunch feminists, whether overt or covert, and the bloody mess left behind. The list seems to grow daily…….. politicians, journalists, lawyers, the judiciary - as new revelations expose the protagonists. Careers have been smashed; reputations smeared with plenty of innocent bystanders caught up in the carnage. I’ve learnt a new term “weaponizing”. Its only because of the dogged determination for real justice in a democratic nation that the guilty get called out.

Democracy is being challenged at every level in our society and the BH case is ultimately about that. Fairness and equality, over ego and greed. I await the next chapter in this story with much interest!

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Not surprising at all.

Every Lawyer I have met has always looked after their own interests first, and then the client's second.

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I recall showing a woman judge an email which would've cleared me of any possibility of harassing my exgf. The email was from my exgf. My exgf was in the courtroom to my left, where complainants position themselves, I was the respondent and that place is where defendants sit/ stand. She did not ask my exgf if she had in fact sent the email, which read in part, "I love you too". The woman judge, and I am assuming feminist, said, "Mr. Hedges, I don't believe you" and issued a two year order of protection. I did not violate that order, nor appeal her decision.

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There is hope that Justice Lee will make findings against Network Ten's lawyer that vindicate both Lehrman and Wilkinson. Shocking as the latter's speech was, she is partly redeemed by the lengths she went to in order to have it legally vetted. She should have known better, but Ten clearly threw her under the proverbial bus.

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