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Welcome to The Arndt Army, a new community-based section championing Bettina Arndt’s campaign for fair treatment for men and boys.
The Arndt Army is a call to action, led by some of Bettina’s outstanding volunteers, who will take the initiative on key fronts needing attention, such as providing support for men in our legal system, and convincing politicians that men matter too.
Go to Bettina’s recently blog, The Arndt Army, to fill in a survey if you wish to join in this important campaign.
This new section will provide you with news on the ongoing injustice men are experiencing and what we plan to do about it. We will be posting details of how you can contribute, with draft letters to politicians and events you can attend.
The Arndt Army will also be producing audio versions of Bettina’s vital articles and books to ensure a larger audience for her work. This new section will become an archive, presenting her decades of research and advocacy for men.
The Arndt Army section will be available anytime on Substack to all of Bettina’s subscribers but she won’t be emailing out new posts from this section. Bettina doesn’t believe in adding to the constant flood of emails so many of us are receiving!
We’ve started our first campaign for 2025 - you can read all about it in Bettina’s latest blog.
You will see we are lobbying NSW politicians about the fact that in this state a complainant’s history of false allegations can’t be used by an accused to defend themselves at trial.
We have prepared a draft letter for you to send to NSW politicians - here’s the link.
We’ve had AI experts working to provide you with the choice of various drafts in a system designed to make the process demand only a few minutes of your time. It’s pretty basic right now but will become more sophisticated as we work on it.
PLEASE step up. We need large numbers from NSW lobbying their local members so please circulate the link to all your networks. But we’d also like interstate people to write to NSW political leaders exposing this absurd and unjust situation.
Hurrah, here is Dutton biting the bullet – acknowledging men have had enough! That’s huge. Finally the Opposition has got the message that men’s votes matter.
Fascinating Sydney court case ended with a jury acquitting as man who had sex when he was asleep. Apparently the man suffered from “sexsomnia”, a medical condition where people exhibit sexual behaviour during sleep.
Clearly the jury was not happy about this excusing the non-consensual sexual behaviour and sent a series of questions to the judge about the consequences of committing crimes while a person was unconscious.
“This is a really dangerous logic,” the judge said. A jury should not be determining a case based on laws it wished were in place but instead on the current laws, he warned, adding that, “Doing this would be unfair on any accused.”
Well done, Judge John Pickering.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14341069/Sydney-sexsomnia-rape-not-guilty.html
News from the UK that journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the UK's most senior family judge has called a "watershed" change.
Journalists can speak to families about their ongoing cases, report what they see and hear in court, and quote from key documents – provided they keep those families anonymous.
But take a look at the case the BBC journalist chose to report - see the link below - featuring a paedophiliac ex-husband. Given the bias amongst most of the media, feminist journalists will revel in the opportunity of promoting cases involving evil men, while naturally ignoring mothers behaving badly. In Australia it has always been possible to report family law cases, provided no identifying details are included. But here too media focus is usually on women as victims of male wrong doing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgrd7llzrgo
Nice to see a male teacher given recognition for outstanding work in education. Brett Dascombe, a Brisbane teacher, has been named a top 10 finalist for the GEMS Education Global Teacher Prize.
Brett Dascombe was selected from over 5,000 nominations and applications from 89 countries around the world. He is an award-winning educator who has transformed geography education by integrating advanced geospatial technologies into classrooms. With over 24 years of teaching experience, Brett inspires students to excel academically while fostering global citizenship.
At Wavell State High School, he spearheaded the use of GIS, drones, and remote sensing data, driving student success and shaping future-ready learners. Beyond his classroom, Brett empowers educators statewide through professional development, sharing resources and expertise.
Read more here - https://globalteacherprize.org/news/global-teacher-prize/1777/1777-2025-Global-Teacher-Prize-Announcing-the-Top-10-Finalists-
It is quite disgraceful that some ghastly woman was permitted to yell about unproven domestic violence accusations during tennis player Alexander Zverev’s speech following his painful defeat in The Australian Open.
Apparently it is all ancient history now and has been dealt with in a court. Zverev reached an out-of-court settlement in June last year that ended a trial where his former partner, Brenda Patea, made domestic violence allegations against him.
Zverev agreed to pay fines of €150,000 ($246,000) to the state, and €50,000 ($82,000) to charitable organisations.
He was facing a charge of causing bodily harm, with prosecutors alleging he pushed her against a wall and choked her. Zverev always denied any wrongdoing.
The woman was eventually removed but faced no charges, of course. See this report..
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/i-m-not-about-to-open-that-subject-again-zverev-responds-to-heckler-after-australian-open-final-loss-20250127-p5l7d4.html
SAVE- Stop Abusive and Violent Environments — is an American organisation fighting for fair treatment for all students and staff in American colleges, especially in the context of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
They have just published some Australian data related to male disadvantage. See this link:
https://www.saveservices.org/2025/01/in-australia-men-and-boys-are-lagging-on-a-broad-range-of-indicators/
Here’s a call out for men in NSW willing to participate in a research project looking at men’s experiences in relation to domestic violence. This is a very rare event - a study aimed at trying to improve the system for men.
Participants in the study must have been ordered by a court to attend a men's behavioural change program recognised by the NSW Government.
Do get involved if you fit the bill.
We are very excited by our new AI audio series which uses this amazing intelligence to present Bettina’s key articles and books in her voice. Here’s the first in this series - featuring Bettina’s most significant article on domestic violence.
We also plan to put together short versions of some of Bettina’s best-known videos. Here’s one from her most popular YouTube video - The Politics of Cleavage – which has had had 1.6 million views.
Notice something very telling about this photo of the gender equity team at Curtin University in Western Australia?
This is taken from James Nuzzo’s excellent new blog pointing out how effectively this university is engaging in sex discrimination. “It is purposely recruiting female students and not male students, and this is occurring over a consistent backdrop of approximately 10,000 fewer male than female enrolments each year.”
And it is deliberately driving out anyone who challenges the new orthodoxy. The eminent law professor Augusto Zimmermann was Deputy Dean of the Curtin Law School until it was proudly proclaimed that this was to be a feminist law school and the mob running the show made it impossible for Augusto to remain in his position.
Read James’ blog which spells out the broader picture.
Midst the tragedy of the LA fires, we have seen very telling evidence of DEI madness, with Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley under attack for the lack of water available for hydrants.
You might like to look at a video Bettina put together wrote four years ago about our own firefighter diversity drive, where various fire chiefs were pushing for 50% female firefighters.
When we are putting together our wish lists for political reform, merit-based management appointments, particularly for emergency services, are an obvious inclusion.
From Denmark there’s been a welcome announcement that their parliament has implemented new laws determining parental alienation is not permitted and sanctions will be in place for parents who influence their children in this way. Here’s the World Parents Organization report on their latest developments.
We have recently seen a whole batch of newly appointed female magistrates prepared to jump through ever higher hoops to prove their feminist credentials. Take Pauline Wright in Griffith who became the first magistrate to a man with coercive control under the new NSW laws. She generously let him avoid prison but sentenced him to 18 months intensive corrections plus he’s to wear an electronic ankle monitor. Here’s the story.
re your DV Industry vid...
The WEF's "Global Gender Gap Report" is outstandingly deceptive. It only reports disadvantage experienced by women. It goes as far as penalising nations on their "parity" index if men are not dying at least five years younger than women.
As the feminists were screaming in the seventies..."Nothing less than equality for women and nothing more than equality for men."
The Denmark laws are very encouraging !