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Friday 19.11.2010
A n O p e n L e t t e r t o t h e S p e a k e r, D e p u t y S p e a k e r a n d o t h e r e s t e e m e d P a r l i a ' t a r i a n s
and ad'Ministers of (Chaps I and II of) the Constitutional Government of Australia
The Hon Harry Jenkins MHR The Hon Brendan O'Connor MHR
Member of the Australian Labor Party Member of the Australian Labor Party
Member for Scullin (House of Representatives) Member for Gorton (House of Representatives)
Speaker of the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives
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By Facsimile: +61 (0)2 6277 2050 By Facsimile: +61 (0)2 6273 7098
And By Email: Harry.Jenkins.MP@aph.gov.au And By Email: Brendan.O'Connor.MP@aph.gov.au
Telephone: +61 (0)2 6277 4000 Telephone: +61 (0)2 6273 7290
The Hon Bob Katter MHR The Hon Tony Windsor MHR
Independent Member of Parliament Independent Member of Parliament
Member for Kennedy (House of Representatives) Member for New England (House of Representatives)
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And By Email: Bob.Katter.MP@aph.gov.au And By Email: Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au
Telephone: +61 (0)2 6277 4978 Telephone: +61 (0)2 6277 4722
The Hon Peter Dutton MHR The Hon Ken Wyatt MHR
Member of Liberal Party of Australia Member of Liberal Party of Australia
Member for Dickson (House of Representatives) Member for Hasluck (House of Representatives)
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And By Email: Peter.Dutton.MP@aph.gov.au And By Email: ken.wyatt.mp@aph.gov.au
Telephone: +61 (0)2 6277 4884 Telephone: +61 (0)2 6277 4707
The Hon Adam Bandt MHR The Hon Wyatt Roy MHR
Member Australian Greens Party Member Liberal Party of Australia
Member for Melbourne (House of Reps) Member for Longman (House of Representatives)
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And by Registered Post And by Registered Post
And By Email: adam.bandt.mp@aph.gov.au And By Email: wyatt.roy.mp@aph.gov.au
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Dear Speaker, Deputy Speaker and other esteemed Members of the Australian House of Representatives
(cc: Ms Gillard and Mr McClelland)
investigated and remedied, and no longer repeated by the Australian Government: http://bit.ly/aRoy1V;
http://dadsontheair.squarespace.com/csa/; http://bit.ly/b4WoCL..
I am writing to each of you, as strong, independent and/or new Members of Parliament to ask you to take action
in parliament to investigate the Australian Government's statistics from the Child Support Agency and the Family
Court of Australia that indicate that every day in Australia 12 non-custodial parents (almost but not exclusively
dads) choose death over continued suffering at the hands of those Government institutions and the lawyers
packed inside them [see below].
Both the (provisional* - litigation pending) Member for Lalor, Ms Gillard nor the Member for Barton, Mr
McClelland, along with their Rudd-Gillard Ministerial colleagues have refused for years to engage in dialogue
over these issues [see below].
As far as my researches indicate the last time that these issues were raised in the floor of the House of
Representatives was by the then Deputy Speaker, the Honorable Member for Curtin, Mr Rocher, on 17.06.1997:
http://bit.ly/aRoy1V .
So it is not out of 'court' to be asking you good Parliamentarians to raise these frightful questions in the House of
Representatives again before next Friday's end of the current Parliamentary sessions.
Should there not be time to raise these issues, and have these demands filled, during the no doubt packed
debating sessions next week, I implore that some or all of you at least raise them during question time(s).
Here are the things that need to be investigated. Which Ms Gillard and Mr McClelland, in contempt of their
Parliamentary and Ministerial duties to the Australian public (Chapters I and Chapter II of the Constitution)
refuse to do.
Independent Investigation of the Child Support Agency “Client Death Toll” which exceeds 4,000 non-
custodial parents per annum:
see: http://dadsontheair.squarespace.com/csa/
Independent Investigation of more than 100,000 human rights violations committed in the Australian
Independent Investigation of the $4,000,000,000 (Four Billion Dollars) of federal taxpayer funds your
Government spends on Family Court judges, officers and infrastructure:
see: 30 January 2010 National Press coverage of your own announcement to double the previous
year's spend of $2,000,000,000 (Two Billion Dollars).
Immediate establishment a Minister for Status of Men and Office of Status of Men (with matching
funding, status and influence as the (more than $26,100,000 (Twenty Six Million Dollars) plus being
spent in 2010 alone on the decade long established Office of Status for Women. [Perhaps Australia
even needs 4 separate Offices of Status, one each for (1) Heterosexual Men, (2) Homosexual Men,
(3) Heterosexual Women and (4) Lesbian Women?]: see:
http://www.formerministers.fahcsia.gov.au/plibersek/speeches/2010/Pages/domesticviolencew
ork_15apr10.aspx
I am concerned that both Houses of the Australian Parliament will be shutting down for Summer recess at the
end of next Friday 26.11.2010 and will not be returning from Summer Break until February 2011.
I am concerned that during the 70 or so Parliamentary non-sitting days of Summer, this will translate into
another 840+ CSA 'non-custodial-parent' deaths. Another 2500+ Australian children of broken families will be
rendered fatherless (losing their non-custodial parent) and ties of kith and kinship (with paternal grandparents,
uncles, aunts and extended family and friends) will be permanently and inter-generationally terminated, whilst
our Parliamentarians sit on the beaches with eyes shut to the goings on in these twin governmental (and utterly
lawyered up) institutions of the Family Court of Australia and the Child Support Agency.
The investigations I call for in the enclose chain of correspondences cannot wait until the February 2011
Parliamentary sessions.
So I call on each of you as independent minded, good, Australian Parliamentarians, to table these calls in the
House of Representatives next week, to call for these investigations.
I also call on you to action parliamentary (and other, disciplinary including curial) investigations into the failings
of Ms Gillard and of Mr McClelland over a course of several years, to do their Constitutional duties as
I have written extensively (with extensive embedded links) to Ms Gillard and Mr McClelland, even on and since
20.10 of 2010. I hope you will take the time to read not just each of the following embedded documents, but
also the further materials linked-in and referred to therein.
● Embedded here (and following at the end of this covering letter) is my 5 paragraph, short-form
information brief, as sent to Ms Gillard yesterday and (via the magic of www.twitter.com) already read
and commented on, yesterday (just the first day) by more than 300 ordinary Australians (so far):
http://bit.ly/agoWv6.
● Embedded here is my 5 page letter to Ms Gillard, as sent to Ms Gillard on 15.11.10 and (via the magic of
www.twitter.com) already read and commented on this week by more than 1600 ordinary Australians, so
far: http://scr.bi/9b17bb .
● Embedded here is my “original” petition (really and information brief and a demand), as sent to Mr
McClelland on 20.10.2010 and (via the magic of www.twitter.com) read and commented on by more than
● Embedded here is my “background paper” Legal Authority Warns that Family Lawyers are a Family
Health Hazard, as sent to Mr McClelland on 21.10.2010 and (via the magic of www.twitter.com) read
● I am inspired by the Hon Member for Denison (Mr Wilkie) in many ways. I am inspired by Mr Wilkie's
integrity and stamina, fortitude and resilience as one of our life-time's most significant (surviving)
Australian whistle blowers on big bad government of our era. The Hon and most worthy Member for
Denison is right up there for survival and admiration, ranking in his David v Goliath Battle of vulnerable
I am inspired by Mr Wilkie's impassioned maiden speech. Manly tears shed for the 10 Australian
soldiers who in the past 9 years have died on active duty on Afghanistan soil. Wrongful and
unacceptable politically caused losses of 9 quality Australian lives (and diminishment of the lives and
generations of family, friends and community around each of them).
But those were young men who were trained, armed, protected, resourced and who died as heroes
(both the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Australian House of Representatives attending
their (Federal) State funerals).
If one can be so crude as to measure or compare human existences in numbers and statistics 10 Aussie
(soldier) deaths in 9 years hardly compares to 12+ deaths a day of non-custodial parents ('CSA clients',
mostly but not exclusively dads).
Most of these dying (mostly but not exclusively) non-custody dads have never been, and never deserved
to be 'in trouble' with 'the law'. Unlike the trained, resourced and protected Australian soldiers, each of
them shares a common history of being stripped of family, shelter, resources, rights, even identities and
incomes (as part of the fallout) and driven into mental illnesses they would never otherwise contract, by
processes before so called 'Justices' and lawyer-enriching practices that are indistinguishable (at best))
from the practices of the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witchcraft “trials.”
I appreciate that Mr Wilkie is, like many Australians, unarmed as to the barbarity and feed-lot mentality of
Australia's family courts and Child “Support” Agency practices. So here are some live twitterfeeds with
which each of you, including Mr Wilkie can continuously 'arm' yourselves and your constitutents and
fellow-citzens with information on these atrocities against Australians by “our” “own”Government on “our”
“own” Australian soil:
● I am inspired by the Hon Member for Kennedy (Mr Bob Katter). The Hon and most worthy Mr Bob
Katter is inspirational for his focus on being the parliamentary instrument, advocate and voice of his
constitutents (not the other way around). Mr Katter is inspirational for his resilience against (perhaps
I am inspired by the Hon Mr Katter's often expressed concerns (including during the August 2010
election campaign) over the plight of our farmers (the feeders and clothers of our nation) who are doing it
tough, with a suicide rate of one suicide (therefore according to Australian of the year Patrick McGorry, at
least 32 unsuccessful suicide attempts) every 4 days. I would expect that many of those suicides (and
on Patrick McGorry's mathematics attempted suicides, and other self-harms and mental disorders) of
which Mr Katter is cognisant are captured within the statistics of the Child Support Agencies “CSA Client”
(non-custodial parent) national death toll of 12+ per day (371 deaths during October 2010 and 448
deaths during September 2010).
And these statistics are only the poor quality statistics of a disinterested, flawed and failed, government
agency with much incentive to under record (or at least to under resource the record keeping) if not
plough resources into covering up, the real extent and cause of these deaths suicides and associated
attempted suicides, depression and other mental illnesses, poverties and criminal and ant-social and
anti-self behaviors hinted at in these Australian Government statistics. Certainly there are no incentives
and no resources allocated to give any reason to think that these statistics capture all or even a
significant percentage of the evil truth of what is going on inside the (lawyer packed) Government
bastions of the Family Court and the Child Support Agency).
I am inspired by all 6 of our new and (in Mr Katter's and Mr Windsor's cases), often- and newly-returned
Members of the House of Representatives. If I might single out three more of our fine new MPs:
● The Hon Member for Melbourne (Mr Bandt) (eg (1) pre-election policy statements on local Melbourne
city and environ issues; (2) on his #equalmarriage Private Members Bill, as #gaymarriage is an @UN
covenanted #humanrights surely protected by our Constitutional laws and international treaty signatory-
obligations). [Apologies, dear readers, for the momentary lapse into twitter-speak.]
● The Hon Member for Longman (Mr Roy) whose maiden speech (to the effect that “I am the first MP
younger than the walls and roof of this Parliamentary building in which we are seated”) demonstrates the
wisdom of the life-philosophy that “We borrow our planet from our children, we do not inherit it from our
ancestors.”
The horrors of Australia's family law court and child support agency tyranny were created by the
generations of Gough (Whitlam)-Malcolm (Fraser)-and-John(Howard). Though opposed by those two
latter as Liberal Party Parliamentarians (both future Prime Ministers of Australia) in 1974, the Family Law
Act and the human rights violating institutions and industries (of lawyers) spawned by it were not
corrected by them despite “Lazarus” years and decades of opportunity to do so, in the three decades
These Whitlerian horrors have grown in successive generations, unchecked and unbalanced by the
Howard Government's 01.07.2006 'shared parenting presumptions' which were lipserviced but otherwise
willfully ignored by the family lawyer-denizens as financial beneficiaries and rulers of the Australian
family law courts. These horrors have grown in successive generations since 1975 (as lawyers habitually
grow laws that are lucrative to their class – the grand scheme of the law is to produce wealth for
lawyers, as Dickens duly recorded in the context his famous literary case Jaundice v Jaundice in his
epic Bleak [blankety-blank] House.
[Dickensian Notes for our Dear Readers: (1) You may purposively insert
“Parliament” or “Court” equally, as you wish in the above 'Blankety-Blank'. Both
My own generation though it has suffered greatly – 6 million out of 22 million Australians affected
according to some sound non-Government statistics 2.5 million out of 22 million Australians according to
more conservative national media estimates.
Each of you inspiring Members of Parliament will have constitutents who number amongst:
● the 1600 Australians who have read this week the embedded chain of correspondences I have sent to
Mr McClelland (most recently, on on 20.10.2010 and 21.10.2010) and to Ms Gillard (on 12.11.2010,
15.11.2010 and yesterday); and
● the 100s of 1000s of Australian children, women and men, parents, grandparents, relatives, siblings and
friends (“families”) who live or lived in your Federal Electorates over the past 35-plus years whose lives
have been affected, damaged and in frightening numbers, destroyed and ended, by and about certain
Governmental Agencies and governmental activities and para-governmental activities, namely, the
secret horrors and Constitutional, international and criminal human rights violations and abuses going
on in the Child Support Agency and in the Australian family law courts that are captured in the
Government statistics quoted in this embedded chain of correspondences.
[At this juncture, I ask that you not do as The Honorable Senator for Tasmania, Mr Bob Brown did, about a
year ago, and refuse to action on corresponding correspondence from me until I produced an actual list of
actual names of those of his actual potential Tasmanian (senatorial) voters falling into the second of these
categories – the motto quoted to me by his staffer being to the effect “I'm not interested in Australian issues. I'm
only interested in issues that affect Tasmanians.”]
I have called out, in this latest chain correspondences, as I have called out via many summary pleas and
petitions, and many detailed informations and submissions to Mr McClelland and to Ms Gillard over the past
several years (all of them ignored), regarding the Rudd-Gillard Government's own shocking family law statistics
and modus of processing 100,000 more distressed ordinary Australian families (approx 300,000 Aussie kids,
their 100,000 fathers, their 100,000 biological mothers, their 400,000 grandparents and countless Aunts, Uncles,
cousins, step-parents and step-siblings) every year.
I call out to you, as I have called out to Mr McClelland and Ms Gillard many times previously, that these hugely
taxpayer-subsidised and seeded, secret (and lucrative to lawyers) blatantly unconstitutional (and often-times
These investigations must be performed within constitutionally established bodies, and investigations, wholly
independent of the lawyers and other governmen and governwomen types who operate and profit from those
processes.
I am also calling out to you to exercise the Constitutional duties that you owe to all Australians (not just your
constitutents) in your capacities as Australian Parliamentarians. Those duties are contained in Chapter 1 of the
Australian Constitution (actually, all VIII Chapters, and the Preamble, really).
As the embedded chain of correspondences records, for several years I have previously written to both Mr
McClelland and to Ms Gillard in both these/their Parliamentary capacities under Chapter I of the Constitution
and in their extended Governmental ad'Ministerial capacities under Chapter II of the Constitution.
As the embedded chain of correspondence records, Ms Gillard and Mr McClelland have over those same years
demonstrated ultimate contempt and violation of the basic principles of representative Government, and the
higher principles of our written Constitution (Government 'by rule of law, not by rule of [elite] people'), democracy
and the rule of law. On all past occasions, “my” “our” and “the” elected Member for Lalor (provisionally
returned to the House of Representatives at the 21.08.2010 federal election, but remedial High Court litigation
pending) and her parliamentary colleagues, including Mr McClelland, have totally, willfully and illegally ignored
them.
Please consider your moral and Constitutional duties as Parliamentarians, the duties you owe to your
constituents and to all Australians.
Like former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Rocher did 13 years ago
(http://bit.ly/b4WoCL) please raise these horror Australian Government 's own Family Court, Child
Support Agency statistics on the floor of the House.
It is unbearable to think that according to the Government's own probably understating statics, even 1, let alone
12+, non-custodial parents (mostly but not exclusively dads) are dying every day in Australia in the aftermath of
often brutal (and lawyer and Family Court and other Government Agency aggravated) and unnecessary
Until you do, I commend the lives of 12 (probably more) lost Australian souls and the fates of 36 (probably
more) de-fathered and de-grandparented Australian children, every day into your Parliamentary hands, until
these atrocities are investigated and remedied, and no longer repeated by the Australian Government:
http://bit.ly/aRoy1V;http://dadsontheair.squarespace.com/csa/;http://bit.ly/b4WoCL
Best wishes
JAMES JOHNSON
Here is a 5 paragraph extract from the latest Family Justice Petition to the
Australian Leader of the House of Representatives, Honorable Member for Lalor and
Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, as sent to her by facsimile and posted to her 2 days
[15.11.2010] ago as @JuliaGillard, by @ and by DM on www.twitter.com.
For feedback from some of the 1300 [1650 by 19.11.2010] Australians who have read
this petitions so far, since Monday morning, via the magic of www.twitter.com, see
below.
To see the full text of this letter to Julia Gillard see: http://scr.bi/9b17bb
Best wishes
JAMES JOHNSON
Federal Candidate for Lalor
Constitutional Human Rights Lawyer
Solicitor and Barrister of the High Court of Australia
(Celebrating 20 Years of Legal Practice 1990 – 2010)
... I am singularly unimpressed by your Commonwealth Attorney-General's failure to table this petition of
20.10.2010 http://scr.bi/acaHue on the floor of the Parliament that week.
Robert Bruce McClelland's latest failure as a Parliamentarian and as a Minister (supposedly “for” Justice) does
not surprise me, capping as it does some three plus years that I and countless others have sought to draw his
attention to these atrocities – with never a hint of an acknowledgment or any other kind from him.
Adopting the language of the former Deputy Speaker (Member for Curtin) in his June 1997 Parliamentary
description of the then Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Alistair Nicholson as 'singularly stupid', It is
my considered opinion, as a constitutional lawyer of some renown and of more than 2 decades good standing,
For these contempts and/or misconducts in public office, Mr McClelland should be censured by being “recalled”
(as the American's call it under their constitutional system) and should be “dismissed” as a Minister if not as a
Parliamentarian (perhaps requiring Chapter Three Constitutional involvement of the Federal Judiciary). I draw
your attention to the obvious Constitutional precedents (whatever their merits) surrounding the 11.11.1975
Whitlam dismissal and of course the 24.06.2010 Rudd dismissal.
As a Constituent of Lalor, as well as you political opponent for the Federal Seat of Lalor, I look forward to
receiving a response from you to these issues regarding your political party colleague and cabinet minister,
and a tabling in the House of Representatives by you of this Family Justice Petition and supporting papers.
Lest you forget and I must make these same charges against you (either before the Governor-General, or
before the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia or via the floor of the Parliament or the floor of another
and other world Assemblies) as the charges that I make before you today regarding your political and
parliamentary colleague Mr McClelland...
FOR MORE (FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER PLUS LINKS) SEE: http://scr.bi/9b17bb.
JamesJohnsonCHR 1200 Readers SO FAR. HOW LONG will @JuliaGillard ignore this #bigGovt
#FamilyLawFail Petition THIS TIME? http://scr.bi/9b17bb #auspol about 2 hours ago via web
MIRANDA DEVINE
Outstanding Award Winning Columnist for Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun etc etc
mirandadevine @JamesJohnsonOHR Interesting piece. Hard to believe CSA death toll. Good luck
7:44 AM Nov 16th via TweetDeck in reply to JamesJohnsonOHR
WAYNE MANSFIELD
Corporate Coach and Social Media Guru - 8th most effective Communicator on Twitter and No.1 (most
followed on Twitter, for Perth and Western Australia.
JamesJohnsonCHR I salute U @WayneMansfield. Thru your @twitter power 500 more read this
http://scr.bi/9b17bb Petition to @JuliaGillard bt 0:00 & 6:00 today. about 12 hours ago via web
WIKEDLEAKS
Corruption Monitor and MSN News Service
SYDNEYHOMELESS
Prominent Non-Government Social Justice & Welfare Organisation
Protecting Poor and Disadvantaged Australians
JamesJohnsonCHR "@SydneyHomeless I've been a Lalor lad for a decade. Candidate for 8 mths
due to yrs Gillard contempt 4 Constitutents." about 12 hours ago via web
JamesJohnsonCHR I congratulate @AungSanSuuKyii & Daw Aung, speaking out for non #Burma
too. #bigGovt LawFail anywhere threatens #humanrights everywhere 8:22 AM Nov 16th via web
ACTU
Australian Conference of Trade Unions
(Australian Peak Trade Union Body)
read_about_it ACTU: Unions welcome release of ASSK & call for action on #humanrights in
#Burma. | http://bit.ly/apwEDw #ASSK #ausunions 1:30 PM Nov 16th via web
read_about_it @latikambourke Nah, let's face it, Australians just love being lorded over by a
hereditary monarchy on the other side of the world. about 2 hours ago via web in reply to latikambourke
delperr0 @read_about_it and Nazi costumes about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to
read_about_it
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Whistle Blowers exposing Australian Government Corruption as the No.1 Cause of Mental Health,
Suicide, Depression, Crime and Social and Family Disintegration in Australia
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AND "The Crucible" may open in the same week. #FamilyLawFail #bigGovt 10:10 PM Nov 14th via web
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