Cast of Characters Unite for Jamberoo Man Walk, The Bugle, 19 April, 2025.
ORIGINAL COPY By John Stapleton Funny as. A cast of characters. An odd assortment. That’s the blokes that get together at the Jamberoo Bakery at 6.15am every Monday and Friday. Such a simple idea. And such a huge success. The Man Walks which have now spread around Australia. Man Walks were founded in Kiama in […]
Feminism’s greatest achievement? – Failed families, Bettina Arndt, Politicom, 16 March, 2025.
IT IS the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a “helping court” became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most hated institutions. Inquiry after inquiry has explored what has gone wrong with Australia’s callous and […]
Warranted Contempt for the Family Court
By Bettina Arndt, Quadrant, 13 March, 2025 t is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a “helping court” became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most hated institutions. This led to dozens of […]
Failed Family Court Reform, Bettina Arndt, Substack, 12 March, 2025
It is the 50th anniversary of Australia’s Family Court. That’s hardly cause for celebration. Over the last half century, what was originally designed as a “helping court” became the frontline of feminism’s gender wars and thus one of the country’s most hated institutions. This led to dozens of government inquiries and attempts at reform which were […]
The failure of Family Law reform in Australia, Augusto Zimmerman, Spectator Australia, 12 March, 2025.
John Stapleton spent a quarter of a century working as a general news reporter for two of Australia’s leading mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is currently the editor of A Sense of Place Magazine and is the author of a number of books, including Terrorism in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost and Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia. His latest book, Failure Family Law […]
Hard-Hitting New Book on the Failure of Family Law by John Stapleton Now Available, The Daily Dad, 11 March, 2025.
My new book, Failure: Family Law Reform Australia, was published on 28 February 2025. It is now available on some platforms and will become more broadly available in the coming weeks. A Rigorous Critique of Family Law Failure: Family Law Reform Australia was published on the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive […]
Failure Family Law Reform Australia Extract, The Bugle, 3 March, 2025.
Extract: Failure Family Law Reform Australia. From the Introduction. Publication date 28 February 2025.
Through the latter half of the twentieth century, as more than half of all marriages came to end in divorce, the belief that family law in Australia was overwhelmingly tilted against fathers and that this hostility was doing massive harm to parents and children alike became an accepted truth amongst a significant section of the […]
Failure: Family Law Reform Australia. Out in February. Extract. A Little Bit Of History
On the 5th of January 1976 the Family Law Act 1975 came into effect It was passed into law by just one vote This marked a controversial and historically significant turning point for Australian family life Making contentious changes to the law relating to marriage, Australia had introduced no fault divorce For the first time, […]
A Front Page Reminisce, A Sense of Place Magazine, 24 January, 2025.
Newspapers are collaborative efforts – journalists, editors, layout people, printers, distributors, the office manager, all combine to produce order out of the chaos of daily life. And every now and then, the universe decides to collaborate as well, in a fine confluence of circumstances, the result being a front page story. Such was the case […]
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