One in Three's submission to the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System

The One in Three Campaign's submission to the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System (#383) has been published on the inquiry's website.

You can download a PDF copy from here.

The submission makes the following points:

• The evidence demonstrates that the process of family separation has negative impacts upon the health, safety and wellbeing of children and families. This is evidenced by the increase in experiences of emotional abuse post-separation, with fathers experiencing the most severe impacts in terms of control and coercion. Men and women in the demographic in contact with the Family Law system experience similar levels of family violence and abuse overall, in contrast to the general population.
• Children are just as likely to report seeing Mum hit Dad as Dad hitting Mum, and the most common and damaging scenario is mutual (or reciprocal) couple violence (Mum and Dad hitting each other).
• The evidence is clear that women’s use of relationship violence is not primarily in self-defence, and that male and female perpetrators alike can use the claim of self-defence to excuse their use of violence. Most male victims of family violence experience it from female perpetrators. The most severe form of family violence - coercive control - is not exclusively a male domain, but is also used by female perpetrators.
• Male victims face many barriers to disclosing their abuse, and the policies of many government agencies including the family court can re-victimise male victims by presuming they are actually perpetrators. There is little appropriate support available for male victims in Australia.
• We urge the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System to consider the needs of ALL victims of family violence and abuse equally, no matter their gender, geography, socio-economic status, age, ability, sexual preference, culture, race or religion, when undertaking this important inquiry.

Comments

[Knot AMan]

Hear hear!

Excellent work one in three. I have proven examples of each of these points in the conclusive and damning evidence I provided in my own submission to the committee.

I hope my submission about my experience as a male victim of Domestic and Family Violence and official discrimination will also shortly be available on the parliamentary website.

It is a prelude to civil action against the Queensland Police and the perpetrators.

Knot AMan
Male DV Victim/Aborted Australian Senate Candidate
Founder, End Gender War Global (Australia) https://www.endgenderwar.org
Activist/Speaker/Blogger https://knotaman.com
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Knot AMan is an alias because it is illegal for him to claim to be a victim of domestic violence using his real name.
Police threatened to prosecute him for doing so when he was nominated to stand for the senate as a victim of domestic violence.
Legal action is being prepared against police and the primary perpetrators of domestic violence and child abuse.

[Eric]

On 12 june 2019 my then partner attacked me with a knife, forcing me from my house. Glebe police asked her about the knife and she denied it. I had to leave my young child with her in my house. My baby boy now lives with me after she refused to take him back in November and ex still lives rent free in My house. A few days ago she snatched our child and ran with him from Macarthur square to Macarthur station. Station staff held me until police arrived. Police returned the child to me yet still no AVO or charges. I was told by Narellan Police DV Officer (a lady copper) that an AVO can only be considered when ex actually cuts me with the knife. No one in the police gives a shit and I honestly fear that my ex will train the baby to think it’s normal, then in 25 years from now he stabs his wife, what then? Scott free? But Mummy said it’s ok?