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Australian Rugby League poster boy Brett Stewart is in negotiations to sell his story after spending his lifesavings on defending sexual assault allegations in court.

LET’S get sceptical. Not cynical, just intellectually curious enough to probe underneath the surface of Kristy Fraser-Kirk’s $37 million claim against David Jones and its former chief executive Mark McInnes. Not to defend the retailer or McInnes. We may never know exactly what happened in this she said-he said dispute. But one thing is certain. This case warrants plenty of legitimate questions, no matter how uncomfortable that may be to some.

In its earliest form – the political campaign to achieve equality under the law and equality in economic opportunities – feminism was a necessary and welcome reform movement. The feminism I take exception to today is not the mild and blameless right of a woman to share equally the cultural air we breathe, but the radical ideology that has come to dominate the movement’s academic and institutional elites over the last 40 years.

I’m a 40-something, independent, liberal, California single mother of four and grandmother to one, and I’m working within the Fathers Movement. This surprises some people. They must wonder why I’m championing these men if it’s true that ‘fathers who seek custody are not great fathers.’ That was the truth according to Mira Fox, who runs Child Abuse Solutions, Inc. when she testified in May against AB 1307, California’s shared parenting bill. Shared parenting, (joint physical custody), and this bill are supported by professionals in the legal, medical, and mental health fields and by family rights organizations, veterans groups and individuals all over California. People across the nation, and around the globe applauded our efforts on behalf of children, and I was proud to be in Sacramento that day. I watched Fox testifying and the picture she painted disturbed me.

A DOMESTIC violence campaign has been tarnished with twisted crime statistics and a critical Ombudsman’s report, amid claims State Minister Gail Gago’s Office for Women has been hijacked by “feminists pushing a political agenda”.

Fathers still have the odds stacked against them when it comes to custody battles in the family court system, but are warring parents forgetting what and who they are fighting for?

“Men are demonized, women are diagnosed. Men are beasts, but women are troubled or mentally ill,” said media scholar Matthew Felling. Felling calls the news coverage of young, attractive teachers involved with their students as entertainment, not crime reporting. It is a clear reflection of society’s disturbing double standard in the treatment of female sexual offenders.

A left-behind father tells the story of his fight to find and win custody of his lost daughter in Japan, where family law is swayed completely against foreign fathers.

Why do many men take sport so seriously? Author Peter West believes attempting to answer this question may provide new insights into what it means to be male. The following is an extract from Peter’s latest book Fathers, Sons & Lovers.

A speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., that cemented King as an orator with no equal. This speech is widely considered to be the most important speech made by any man this century, and possibly of all time.