by Dee McLachlan
As I head to Adelaide for the fifth time to continue filming my documentary, and to deal with Family Court criminality, I reflect on parallels of the hit TV series, HANDMAID’S TALE. I am hoping many readers have seen it. (It was on SBS once.)
Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel, it is essentially a view into the totalitarian society of Gilead, where handmaidens are enslaved to produce children for the elites. Their children are then removed from them so that elite couples (who have become sterile) have a chance of mother and fatherhood.
This is an extract from a review from Alan French:
“While dystopian films, novels and TV series continue to gain in popularity, few truly embrace the darkness of their subject matter. With the end of the world and societal norms, violence and evil are alluded to… The series takes place in an alternate reality and jumps right into a heartbreaking story of fascism and misogyny. The result is an intensely brutal depiction of a dark future that makes for a tough, yet extremely satisfying watch.”
Welcome to the world of protective parents that have entered the Family Court system.
I remember one scene in the TV series where the leading handmaid is given the opportunity to view her child from a distance. It is heartbreaking. Millions of viewers around the world are watching this award winning series thinking this is just FICTION. (The series won the Golden Globe, Best Television Series.)
The real Handmaid’s Tale is being played out in the Family Courts every day. But with a twist. Some of the crimes perpetrated by the Family Court, the child protection departments and the police, make the hit dystopian TV series seem tame in comparison.
I am getting emails constantly about how their children were torn from them — for no reason — other than trying to protect them. Evidence destroyed and falsified on a grand scale. Many children are sent to foster care, or to live with their abuser. Wanting to protect one’s child has become a red flag to the departments that protect children. They delight in it.
The real State of Gilead is here in Australia, where women are also enticed to become “breeders” for pedophile groups. Many foreigners, or new immigrants are wooed on the internet. They are set up from the get-go just to produce children, who are then taken and potentially trafficked via the Family Court system. I have now heard details of many examples that follow this pattern.
As Gumshoe continues to expose the deliberate crimes perpetrated by the departments, the polices, the courts, and the abusers, the real story will soon emerge like a biblical tsunami to a nation dumbed down by Gogglebox and sport.
I am extremely busy producing my feature film which will expose much of this, plus the historical cover-ups of cold case crimes in Adelaide — crimes that changed the nation.
A final note: There is no stopping the content of my film from reaching the public now. The damning interviews are done. Copies of the footage have been dispersed and are in drifting clouds. And anyone of my trusted friends can publish its contents.
Bravo Dee exposing the Great Australian Silence-you are right about
“The real State of Gilead is here in Australia, where women are also enticed to become “breeders” for pedophile groups. Many foreigners, or new immigrants are wooed on the internet. They are set up from the get-go just to produce children, who are then taken and potentially trafficked via the Family Court system.”
Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe is a life-long Indigenous activist who, among other things, helped lead the successful campaign to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. She also recently served as a Victorian Greens MLA representing the state seat of Northcote.
In the lead up to Invasion Day, Thorpe spoke with 3CR’s Green Left Radio presenter Jacob Andrewartha. Below is an abridged version of the interview:
I have selected one question:
Question: “What can you tell us about the on-going campaign against child removals?”
Lydia’s response: “Grandmothers Against Removals is a group that was started in New South Wales and it has had quite a remarkable impact on removal rates.
Rates of removals have dropped quite dramatically because these Aboriginal grandmothers were part of the conversation. These grandmothers know who in their family can take these children and maintain their connection and identity with their families and communities.
I was part of setting up Grandmothers Against Removals in Victoria. We are getting up to 35 elders coming to meetings with painful, traumatic stories of their grandchildren being taken away and how the system is not supporting families to get these children back.
I’ve heard stories from ex-child protection workers about children who are placed with non-Aboriginal families and who are in great harm. They’ve being completely disconnected from their Aboriginality and their community.
The legislation we have in place isn’t being followed by any of the institutions that are taking our children away and nobody is questioning this. We have over 2000 children in out-of-home care today and this number continues to rise. This has to stop.
It’s genocide to remove children from culture, family and their land.
These children are growing up with no identity. When these children grow up to be teenagers, adults, they face an identity crisis. It’s part of a strategy to wipe out the very essence of who we are as people.
We also need to change certain legislation. For example, currently, if a child is in out-of-home care for two years then that family or those carers can adopt that child. Once the child is adopted they are gone forever.
Legislative changes need to occur but these grandmothers don’t have legal representation.
We are on a journey to ramp up our campaign and to share our stories widely on what’s actually happening with child removals.”
Dee last year a delegation of First Nations Grandmothers marched on Parliament House. My lived experience and research is entwined with the story of the Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert. Can their story be included in your film? I believe they will be rallying in Canberra next weekend. From their website.
“On the 20th anniversary of Sorry Day, May 26, a day to remember the forced removal of First Nations’ children from their families that became known as the Stolen Generations, a delegation of First Nations’ grandmothers marched on Parliament House chanting “Bring our children home”.
Rather than being a landmark for progress and reconciliation the delegation of Grandmothers said that 20 years on, the situation has only worsened.
The delegation was made up of two grassroots groups: Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR), formed in 2014 in Gunnedah, NSW and since spread across the country; and the Strong Grandmothers of the Central Desert, formed in the Northern Territory in 2016 in response to increasing brutality toward Aboriginal children by police and abuse in youth detention.
Explaining the meaning behind Sorry Day, chairperson of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Roy Ah-See, said: “Under this cruel policy, the people we now recognise as the Stolen Generations lost their childhood, language and culture. The tens of thousands of members of the Stolen Generations are survivors and Australian society must support them on their long journey of healing.
“[F]or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and the broader Australian community, National Sorry Day is our opportunity to show respect for the courage and resilience of the Stolen Generations and their families.”
Sorry Day was just one of the recommendations of the Bringing Them Home report tabled by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1997. The report comprehensively documented the mistreatment of Australia’s First Peoples by consecutive federal and state governments from the 19th century to the 1970s.
However, of the 54 recommendations from the report, only two have ever been implemented: Sorry Day and the national Apology to the Stolen Generations, made by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2008.
At the time of the Apology, the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care was just over 9000. In the past decade this has nearly doubled, with the latest figures showing 17,664 First Nations’ children currently in out-of-home care.
This also comes at a time when the Northern Territory police recently announced that no charges would be laid following the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, despite findings of widespread systemic failures and abusive behaviour by prison guards, which breached Australian and International Laws.
“Ten years on from Rudd’s apology, this is criminal. Our Indigenous incarceration rate is the highest in the world and our young people are filling jails where they are systematically abused and routinely tortured as evidenced by the recent NT Royal Commission,” the Grandmothers’ delegation said in a statement.
“We are calling for an immediate end to the ongoing Stolen Generations and the persecution of our children by state agencies, from welfare to the police. We want a national restoration program enacted immediately to return all our children in state care and police custody to their families and their Country. Departmental heads must take direction from, and work hand in hand, with local grandmothers groups and families to develop effective restoration pathways that are context specific and culturally appropriate.
“We have the answers for our children’s wellbeing within our communities and within our cultures.”
“They deprived them old fellas of their children, of keeping their culture alive by taking their children away,” Serena Bulmer from the Mandingalbay Yidinji, Kuku Djungan and Guugu Yimithirr Nations of Queensland said. “As we speak my children are still there in that system. I am fighting for them. That’s the reason I came down here to Canberra.
“We are going to go back home to Yarrabah and face the department there. Being here with these old ladies has given us strength to keep fighting.”
While the Grandmothers’ delegation met with the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion on May 24 and managed to secure commitments to organise regional meetings to progress the delegation’s demands, the Grandmothers are not holding their breath: “[G]iven the long history of broken promises from government, we will maintain pressure through protest until genuine Aboriginal community control is achieved,” they said.
GMAR grandmother Helen Eason of the Gomeroi and Biripi Nations said: “This system and its white government is not the solution. We are the solution. Our voices, our people are the solution. Not a white government and not a white system that has controlled us and condemned us for years and years — and continues to fail us.
“We’ll be back here in six months and we are going to hold them to their word. Nigel we are coming for you.”
Thank you, Diane. Thank you, Dee. Thank you Strong Grandmothers. Thank you, Serena Bulmer. Thank you, Kevin Rudd. Thank you Lidia Thorpe.
Thank you in advance to the Parliamentarians who will wake up now and repeal the legislation that hands a child in guardianship for 2 years to an adopter without the parent’s permission. Who ever heard of such a thing!
There should also be state legislation, as suggested by THE LATE Senator Nancy Sschaefer in Georgia, USA, to allow any such parent to demand a jury trial before, or after, the child is taken away. There should be legislation to make it a crime on the part of a government worker who participates in the taking of a child without good cause.
Don Rufty says “Blame the judges.” I, too, say blame the judges, but also blame the whole food chain. Why not? In a case of murder even an accessory after the fact can get the same punishment as the murderer.
And this is murder.
Basicly its all about clandestine networks of child abuse in aust involving secret societies of whom an estimated one third of politicians and police belong to ! judges and the elite would be more like three quarters
Wayne, svp, how do the 30% deal with the 70%?
I mean if they all are in a regular meeting, on the business of the day, how do the elite hold thier secrets?
Today I watched hours and hours of the US Senate hearings to confim Barr as new US Atty Gen. I was knocked over by the way all of them could carry on a “normal” conversation, say about importation of drugs from Mexico, never alluding to US soldiers guarding the poppy crop in Afghanistan — mush less did anyone mention 9-11.
Re the priests, surely it is less than 30% of them that were pedophiles. I am dying to know if the other 70% were aware.
What about at a Cabinet meeting? Even if 3/4 are in the know, how much trouble do they have to take to hide it from the innocent 1/4. I am truly baffled.
We had a good judge, initials JP, who died young-ish in SA a few years back. i couldn’t help thinking he got “removed” because of this problem of the inconvenient innocents.
Thanks to Wayne or anyone who can shed light….
they hold their secrets through blackmail within members the others look the other way or their career is over
We loved getting too much homework (from the nuns) so we could bitch about it in the schoolyard. Rest assured our parents were not reprimanded for letting this happen.
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I’ve had plenty of experiences with ‘social workers’. Little people with a self important bureaucratic arrogance that seem to enjoy their ‘power’ – by forking up your life faster than you can keep up.
NEVER, EVER call any Government office for assistance. That may seem rough, but if you take the chance, you also have to deal with the consequences. You’re now in the ‘system’.
If you are on a rural property, it might be best to say that they never showed up – and you don’t know where they are.
This is exactly what I tell everyone these days! Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE, if you have children, contact a government department. The ones that are ‘designed’ to help you are the ones that then demonstrate your vunerability & provide details to the child stealers! Like your thinking Terry, I think I might go buy a farm !
Pity that a government attack on parental authority had to be couched in 60 minute-style drama music & tears because bureaucratic control of academia is central to understanding a major issue .
The home-ed crew I knew in the early 90s were routinely accused of making their kids do too much/allowing them to do too little/following a model that the District Superintendent didn’t like. Low achievement was deemed unacceptable, high achievement inappropriate(seriously!) It was good to belong to a culturally diverse support group with a common enemy.
This report hits a personal note:
Not because of the Dad’s ideas about book-work( I always followed the reverse model) but because my kids spent a lot of unchaperoned time in public places from the time they were quite young and I remember making my 10 year-old get out of the car and walk home (about 2 k’s) because he wouldn’t stop fighting with his younger brother, and I literally had to drag him out of the back-seat, all the time thinking, in the back of my mind, “gee I hope some welfare officer isn’t watching”
I realise that when State hostility isn’t properly acknowledged for what it is and dealt with accordingly family members are likely to wind up attacking each other but there needs to be a clear demarcation between State vs. Family and Family member vs. Family member
As for dealing with State agents it helps to be as pedantic as possible, e. g. “what law authorises you to do X, Y and Z ; so-called “court orders” don’t otherwise mean anything.”
Guilt projection is also the mainstay of “Job Centre” officers & “assistant” bailiffs. The issue appears to be everywhere you look.
Terry, in the case shown in the video, I think a schoolteacher may have dobbed the parents in. And then how could they get out of it?
A friend of mine in Oz, about 25 years ago, was given a letter by the school, with referneces to the UN law, telling her that it was against human rights for her to discipline her children (say, by not letting them attend a party).
She took it seriously and obeyed that law.
Whats needed in this country is an international investigatory panel with the powers of a royal commission consisting of international subject matter experts drawn, lotto style, from lists of volunteers from other parts of the world,
They come into the country, they get a full briefing on the objective and Australian law, they are allocated a subject matter legal expert as an advisor who is also drawn lotto style from a panel of subject matter experts.
When fully briefed and given all case files and other relevant materials they are set loose to investigate. They must have the power to lay charges against individual human persons as the panel considers appropriate.
Their report must be made public with any potential prejudicial information redacted until any trials are complete.
Anything less makes it just too easy for the powers that should not be to control and kill off
Such bodies could also be used to review cases ie,Pt Arthur, the Beaumont children, the Claremont serial killins, LindtCafa and so on
I always thought if there was to be an inquiry into something like the Port Arthur Massacre that the best way (perhaps ‘only’) way it would work is if there was three (3) judges sitting to review the evidence. The leading judge would be a RETIRED Australian judge and then two judges from other English Law jurisdictions (Hong Kong, New Zealand, etc.)
I just do not trust a single Australian judge to deal with the evidence – no confidence, non whatsoever with a ‘player’ that came up through the system.
TRUST?
Someone who has been there.
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/01/12/supreme-court-finds-capilano-honeys-lawyers-lied-and-deceived-about-poisonous-and-toxic-honey/#comments
Yeah, well there were three (3) judges on the bench. My guess was that one of them would have written a dissenting opinion that would have embarrassed the other two.
Just my hunch, I can’t say for sure, but I know one of the female judges and she was a ‘PLAYER’ big time.
Maybe someone can sort through the other two judges decisions and figure out who should be moved up the pyramid before the PTB crushes their career.
Kevin, your idea sound sensible. Another case could be the Falconio supposed murder in the Northern Territory. Deliberate police set up of Bradley Murdoch.
That is a long bow. Need more!
Ned, the female I referred to used to be the editor of the ‘Bar News’. You probably remember her, LOL.
Beazley seemed to be a straight shooter. I had an application before her one time and after the evidence was in I started my ‘impassioned’ submissions. 30 seconds into my submissions she bent forward and said “Mr. Shulze, I’m going to grant your application, do you want to say anything else?” – I said, “No your Honour, I’m going to sit down”
Glad to see she’s moved ahead in the field.
The brutal treatment of Sabine McNeill by the British ‘justice’ system: http://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2019/01/sabine-mcneill-74-sentenced-to-nine.html
Family Court & Youth Court hearings should take place with a panel rather than a single judge. The Evidence Act needs to be reinstated in both also. When ‘Hearsay’ is favoured over ‘Evidence’ of course it allows too much room for corruption, hence the current system! It’s not rocket science, the people in positions of power just need to listen & believe what the children are saying!!!
It seems that your reporting is bringing Matthew 24 more into view. Most will not receive the warnings, because they are so wrapped up in their own lives(selfies). “Evil People can’ reason, because they are demented”. I have a video that may impact you and your readers called: FINAL REALITIES OF THE LAST DAYShttps://youtu.be/ED3lXkSxj-U Shalom, Lee
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