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ABSENT Documentary Australian Premiere Tour
Absent, a powerful and moving film about the impact of fathers on children and society, will screen in Australian cities as part of a National Premiere Film Tour 13-29 June 2013, accompanied by the film’s award-winning director Justin Hunt. I am very excited that I will be accompanying Justin Hunt on the tour and hopefully will catch up with you ...
Elephant in the Room
In the Absent movie, which will soon be touring Australia, 13-29 June 2013, John Eldredge, author of ‘Wild at Heart’ says, “If you take snapshots of western culture right now the prognosis is not good”. David Blankenhorn has stated in ‘Fatherless America’ written in 1996, “Fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation”. Dave Kopel, in his article ...
The Moments We Live For
For months you have been hearing about the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Train the Trainer Summit, held last weekend at ‘Gumburu’ on a mountain top in North Queensland. The question you might well ask is, “How did it go?” Before I endeavour to answer, let me tell you about the agony and the ecstasy we experienced in the lead up to the ...
Children Looking for their Father
Some time ago a good friend of mine sent me an article by Mic Dover called, ‘Once Were Toddlers’ from a monthly magazine ‘Sydney’s Child’, www.sydneyschild.com.au The article was all about the New Zealand based Good Man Project. The idea for the project grew out of a conversation between a college headmaster and ex-prison manager. The manager, Celia Lashlie, had been ...
Our Anzac Fathers
Some are speculating that this year’s 98th celebration of ANZAC Day could be one of the biggest ever. The curious thing is that more and more young people are getting up very early in the morning to take part in the traditional ANZAC dawn service. This year tens of thousands will make the pilgrimage to Turkey to commemorate the heroic ...
The Day My Dad Died
It started like any other day. I remember vividly it was a warm blue sky with a light sea breeze from the east. I had kissed my wife goodbye early that morning and had raced into the office to get three major projects completed that day. The beauty of the day faded quickly into the urgency of the deadlines I ...
A Christmas to Remember
As Christmas is once again upon us, I would like to share a story that I guess explains what Dads in Distress is all about. It happened a few years ago in the very early days of forming DIDS, and certainly inspired me to continue the work. I was sitting in a DIDS meeting sharing my story. It was early ...
With Thanks On My 50th Birthday
A lot has happened over the past year. I am about to celebrate 50 years on this planet. We had a party last Saturday and it was awesome to be surrounded by my friends and family, my five beautiful children and my new grandson. Life does seem to turn around. There were many times I thought I would never make ...
It’s a Boy!
Dear Diary, IT’S A BOY! My beautiful daughter gave birth the other week to a beautiful boy, 8lb 3oz. I was supposed to speak in Parliament House at the Human Rights Conference about ‘DIDs’ that week. And you know what? Normally my work would take preference over my private life. That's possibly why I am now divorced. But this time ...
Altruistic Love of a Father
It is nearly forty years ago since the first known father, an Australian, applied for legal custody of a baby girl and was subsequently granted legal custody of his baby daughter by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Though this father was granted legal custody of his baby daughter by the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Department ...
