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Missing Justice pt 7: When Advocacy Is Recast as “Extremist Influence”

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An armored car… to deal with “extremist influence” at the children’s court (gumshoe adaption)

by Dee McLachlan

I have recently come to understand that I may now be regarded as an extremist by social workers within the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing — apparently alongside the formidable and deeply principled Serene Teffaha who is helping with this case.

This came as something of a surprise when Serene told me over the phone.

Nearly two years ago, I attended a founding meeting in New South Wales for an advocacy initiative called Shield the Children. The room was filled with people who, by any ordinary measure, would be described as civic-minded: experienced advocates, highly regarded psychiatrists, barristers, lawyers, social workers, a retired Senator, and — if memory serves — at least one retired judge. Pastor Paul Robert Burton was there. Graeme Bell joined by Zoom. It was hardly a gathering of radicals.

The purpose of the meeting was simple and earnest: how do we fix what is plainly broken in child protection? (My own view — increasingly difficult to avoid — is that the system now functions more as a well-oiled child-removal industry.)

There were discussions about better training, stronger advocacy pathways, meaningful parliamentary oversight, and updating the child protection laws. At one point, I offered what seemed a controversial proposition: the Department and the courts simply need to follow the laws that already exist. And where the law is breached — through perjury, material non-disclosure, criminal negligence, or conduct that irreparably harms a child — the law should apply equally. Even to public servants.

Yet here we are.

In a recent report concerning the two runaway sisters, I have been told by Serene that she and I are framed — directly or by implication — as part of an “extremist” influence. Not because we reject the rule of law, but because we insist upon it.

The inversion of logic is staggering.

The words attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke come to mind: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” One is left to wonder whether these public servants genuinely fail to grasp the consequences of their actions — or whether repeated exposure to harm has dulled their capacity to recognise it in children.

After writing well over a dozen unanswered letters pleading for de-escalation, I turned instead to public writing. I wrote six articles in response to the sisters’ predicament. Because what I was witnessing was not protection, but simply persecution of a minor.

Missing Justice: What the Articles Actually Advocate

Missing Justice – Part 1 examines children labelled “missing” not because they are lost, but because the system lost sight of their welfare. When authorities rely on secrecy, undisclosed locations, defective recovery orders, and improperly obtained intervention orders, children are pushed into legal and psychological limbo. These children did not vanish — they actively sought safety.

Part 2 addresses how child-protection systems too often confuse control with care. Measures framed as “protection” can operate as punishment, particularly for distressed children and protective parents. Genuine safeguarding requires de-escalation, empathy, and attention to the child’s lived experience.

Part 3 confronts institutional blindness: the refusal to acknowledge harm caused by state action. The younger sister described being “hunted like an animal.” She was denied liberty for over 500 days and it included 82 days in detention. When systems prioritize their own narratives over evidence, children remain at risk. This part urges authorities to remove the bureaucratic blindfold, confront outcomes honestly, and submit decisions to real scrutiny — in service of children, not institutional self-preservation.

Part 4, titled Just Follow the Law, is a plea for lawful governance. The legal framework already requires decision-makers to act in a child’s best interests, respect procedural fairness, and avoid unnecessary harm. If authorities simply followed the law as written — rather than twisting it or bypassing it — much trauma would be avoided.

Part 5 exposes how coercion and the dismissal of evidence actively harm children. Distress signals are reframed to preserve the institutional. Evidence of harm demands protection, not denial. Coercion has no place in a system that claims to be child-centred.

Part 6 calls for accountability at the highest levels. After years of observing systemic harm, I argue that reform cannot occur without responsibility being taken by those in charge — and, where trust has been lost, a willingness to step aside. If the Secretary is unable or unwilling to help just one child, why should she be charged with about 10,000 in her care? Did she authorize the girl’s detention beyond statutory limits? Children’s interests must come before bureaucratic self-protection.

I get the impression that the report does something more troubling than making overt accusations.

My name appears under a heading titled “Concerns for Ongoing Involvement with Extremist Groups.” Under that banner, my conduct is described as questioning court orders, asserting that some orders may have been unlawfully obtained, discouraging engagement with authorities, and influencing a child’s communications with services.

These observations are then woven into a narrative used to justify police escalation, forced entry, arrest, and secure welfare responses. As an advocate — and as a guardian ad litem — have I been subtly repositioned from protector to risk factor through proximity to a label that carries extraordinary weight?

What Extremism Is — and What It Is Not

Extremism has a meaning. In law, policy, and common usage, it is not synonymous with dissent. Extremism involves the rejection of democratic principles, the endorsement or justification of violence/punishment, or coercive conduct aimed at undermining the rule of law.

Advocating that authorities follow the law is not extremism. Publishing criticism of government action is not extremism. Arguing that a court may have been misled is not extremism — it is a recognized legal concept known as fraud on the court.

Why This Matters in the Context of IVOs

This mislabeling becomes especially dangerous when paired with the extraordinary power of Intervention Orders. IVOs authorize police to remove people from homes, sever contact between parents and children, and criminalize communication — often on an interim basis and without the affected party being heard.

That power rests on a fundamental premise: the order must be lawfully obtained.

When an IVO is procured through deception, material non-disclosure, or false representations, or coercion, its legal footing is poisoned. Courts rely on truthful information to exercise jurisdiction. Where that trust is abused, the order may be void — or void from the outset. Police powers under an IVO are not free-standing. If the underlying order is unlawful, enforcement may also be unlawful, particularly once authorities are placed on notice of defects. Serene and I did precisely that — repeatedly.

This is not radical. It is settled law.

From Legal Argument to “Extremist Influence”

Here is where the threads converge.

When lawful critique of an IVO — questioning jurisdiction, method of procurement, or conflict with other orders — is reframed as “extremist influence,” accountability is transformed into threat. Evidence becomes optional. Dissent becomes pathology. Children’s resistance is reinterpreted as manipulation rather than fear.

This is not how a protective system functions. When lawful process, care, and advocacy for children are recast as extremism, the problem lies not with the advocates but with a system that has lost its bearings. Intervention Orders exist to prevent harm — not to silence criticism, punish protection, or shield institutions from scrutiny.

An unlawful foundation cannot support lawful force. And when a child-protection department begins to resemble an extremist organization not through ideology, but through conduct: when it assumes moral infallibility, elevates its own authority above law and evidence, pathologizes dissent, and dehumanizes children and families by oppressive controls then the system has lost its way. These are not the traits of protection. They are the recognized behavioural hallmarks of extremism in institutional form.

And the children, as always, pay the price.

A child’s lived experience is set aside in favour of management control — where compliance is mistaken for safety. Control is addictive.

I hope the Court this week remembers what “best interests” truly means — for the younger sister, and for every child who depends on the law, and the courts, to protect them — in this case protect the family from further persecution.

33 COMMENTS

  3. The communist one-party state we are now under, thanks in some large part to the Teals Party, is typical of any communist enterprise, you are either with us or against us. Here we have soft communism, we are still as a country income-generating for the elites who own the banking system and chain stores etc. Gradually we are being run down towards beggardom, with a bureaucratic communism being installed, the goal is to terminate your bloodline, get you into the smallest possible cubicle and keep you there on rations until it’s time for your injections. The frog is boiled so slowly, the timeframe is generational, it barely notices anything. Increasingly the media carps on in unison to the point where it is not even viable for advertisers. I notice on SBS-TV which was 20% privatised in order to enable advertiser editorial power, that the ads are increasingly from UN begging for money, or headshrinkers begging for money for their mental health nonsense, or tormented animals which they keep in cages hoping people will send in $5 per month to “free” the animal, then they will just get a new one in any case to maintain their racket.
    In this environment of slack jawed communist minions being manipulated by pure evil it’s no wonder the publisher is a thorn in their side. They obviously hate anything which might contradict their narratives. But what people see and know is clear, they are being impoverished and replacement theory is in full swing. Every Australian industry is under threat from these communists, who are in turn operated by the elites who own the major industries such as BigPharma and BigFood. Our government in Canberra is purely farcical and run by lobbyists with bags full of money. Too much money is not enough for our Global elites, they want it all. Most people are not brave enough to get in the way. They have been programmed in any case, to dump their kids at a childcare asap. There is no future for them. Just sit around and have your choice of “substances”.

    • Well Joe, my earlier reply is not here.
      Maybe it will turn up.
      I think you will be very interested in the following.
      ‘NEW: MICHAEL JACO AND SHEILA HOLM- PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM THE W H ON TREASON AND SEDITION IN ANERICA’. 1;55:57’ sadly it is at:
      http.//www.beforeitsnews.com PEOPLE POWERED SERIOS INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENTS CURRENTLY AFOOT.
      There is a part from about 37 mins where Sheila refers to points that have been applied to bring in the communist agenda that are bleeding obvious that have and are being implemented.
      After that it would be worthwhile to go back to the start….. if the military are required to take the prison to ENFORCE THE RELEASE OF TINA PETERS ON THE BASIS OF Ts pardon I would NOT be surprised.
      SO IT IS ALL FUN —- I have been watching and aware of most for about 7 years.
      1247

  4. Those Russians are so uncivilized, They don’t even know how to draw graffiti, how to die their hair blue or pink, or even how to get tattoos and nose piercings. And what’s with no trash lying around, don’t they east fast food?

    https://youtu.be/WNvDxIIxv40

    I can see why they are itching to invade westward, so they can learn and absorb the values of the western Europeans.

  5. “Pastor Paul Robert Burton was there. Graeme Bell joined by Zoom. It was hardly a gathering of radicals.”

    ‘excuse me, Dee, what language do you spick?

  6. Oh wonderful! British Parliament and US Congress have just JOINTLY proposed legislation. It’s Bill 787, entitled “Fuck the child-stealing government.”

    (I spick Esperanto.)

    • Remember when Sen Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard jointly sponsored a bill “Stop Arming ISIS”?

      same sort of thing. (but I am kidding about Bill 787, K?)

    • They’ve already got lots of laws but now they are going into top gear with laws on top of laws to make a total spaghetti only an AI would attempt to unscramble

  9. Considering the stuff that Mm has just raised it is topical and convenient to consider some alien stuff apparently touring our system and being closest to our planet tomorrow. 19/12 US
    ‘Live: Michael Jaco with Ismael Perez 3IAtlas space force hidden technologies being released humanities awakening’
    Terry, note the first two minutes where Jaco says he has viewed it and it is benign etc.
    Other readers pass on it straight away as they have no idea what remote viewers can do or feel.
    They are known as normies and naysayers who have never had any personal experiences [APPARENTLY] on those abilities and just scoff away at it .
    So their opinions are irrelevant to those who know
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    • Oh F’.
      Want the opposite to uncle Val Thor above?
      ‘INSIDERS high alert update Obama to be arrested and Russia to take Europe and go to……’
      http://www.beforeitsnews.com
      I picked to reports.
      12 mins THERE ARE NO FRIENDLY ALIENS. Right but he accepts apparently that they are bad and therefore exist💁🤷‍♂️
      From 33 mis it is more local- BONDI. – to about the end he ‘EXPLAINS WHY’ it is a basic reason they I have detected has a planned purpose- greater Israel and nuttyyouknow is behind it.
      I think I will go move in range of Terry’s vehicle patch💁🤪
      500

      • Sounds like the NWO NEW RELIGION IS IN THE PLANNING.
        “Problem, reaction and then the solution’ then complete control!
        Perhaps I will try to hitch a ride with the atlas and hopefully move up a dimension or two and leave the chipped normies to catch up in an another thousand years?
        507

  12. Redacted news at Bin from about 1.18, just fir normies:
    Mars has water and life. But we knew about life from the mid 1970s, did we not normies.
    I could not be bothered with normies. Good night.
    1017

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