but i did not read it

here it is - unread - turning my head aside

The Goodluck Club

“The Goodluck Club is a fellowship of men whose primary purpose is to re 
establish the family as the core unit within our society. We want lifelong 
heterosexual love to be supported with positive discrimination and 
affirmative action by all our governments. The purpose of marriage is to 
grow children - even above wealth.

from:
The Mission Statement
Business Plan
The Goodluck Club Pty Ltd.


As a fifty seven year old Australian man who has attempted marriage twice, 
had one child and lost three handbuilt houses (by my own hand) to two wives 
and one de facto – I cannot recommend marriage to the next generation of 
young Australian men.
	My advice to the next generation of Australian men is to get a vasectomy as 
soon as possible and join the Goodluck Club.
	Although Justice Lionel Murphy may have had the penetrating mind and 
humility to have a vision of where The Family Law Act could take the 
Australian family, he failed in his lack of anticipating the intellectual 
vanity of a man like Justice Alistair Nicholson. Nicholson interpreted the 
Family Law Act as a feminist and became the real architect of the 
emancipation of women by creating a domestic matriarchy and massive access 
to the wealth needed to bankroll it.
	That there has been a significant shift in wealth between the genders 
during the past thirty years is indisputable. That it is women who initiate 
divorce in the overwhelming majority of cases (over 90 %) is also 
indisputable. The fact is, that there has been a massive breakdown in 
marriage since the Family law Act came into being, more even than two world 
wars could produce. This breakdown is being driven by women. Though this is 
the truth - it is almost never heard and it is just about impossible to say 
it – anywhere.
	Women are dissatisfied and unhappy with marriage in Australia, even after 
thirty years of what appears to be significant and genuine efforts by 
Australian men to make it work. Feminism has maintained its influence over 
Australian women and many Australian men. It remains the driving narrative 
behind the domestic matriarchy. The nurture and education of children have 
remained almost exclusively feminine areas of influence even after all the 
posturing about equal opportunity.

“….We offer men guaranteed freedom from
unwanted pregnancy and abortion. We guarantee
fatherhood for life to all members.”

	The nuclear family is fast disappearing into child care centres, old 
people’s homes and access weekends. One in two Australian men cannot 
maintain a marriage for more than seven years. When the marriage fails, they 
lose any real chance to father their children, their home, their house, and 
a significant portion of any control over their finances. Somehow, through 
the sexual revolution and feminist demands for absolute sexual independence, 
we have arrived at a point in history where marriage can no longer demand 
even fidelity. A couple of weeks ago, the High Court of Australia refused to 
compensate a man who had brought up two children sired by his wife’s lover. 
Judge Michael Kirby commented that fidelity was a private matter for the 
individual. The highest court in the land has indicated that fidelity is no 
longer required in a marriage. If this is so, then marriage for men has no 
advantage over a de facto relationship, and it is fair to say that without 
fidelity there is no contract, and therefore no marriage. It would appear 
then, that marriage is dead.

	“….The Goodluck Club offers a fully reversible vasectomy to all men 
applying for membership. Members are required to deposit four full files of 
their sperm in our state of the art sperm bank facilities before their 
procedure. Members will have full access to medical and legal specialists as 
part of their membership”.

	Family is not just the basic unit of democracies but also it is the basic 
unit of just about all the brands of communism, socialism, tribal 
indigeneous communities dictatorships, military juntas and tyrannies. It is 
the basic unit of all civilization throughout the world. Without the family 
we are faced with the absolute and complete power of the individual and the 
mob.
	Somehow, feminism has become anti family. It sees the family as an 
oppression to women. It views women who stay at home to mother their 
children as traitors and it views fatherhood as an enemy. The feminist will 
always advise women to escape from a marriage, because she is consumed in a 
language of liberation, and a landscape that fears men and can only conceive 
of her freedom and health in an absolute individualism.
Each year we see the statistic that four out of five Australian women have 
experienced domestic violence at some time in their lives. This statistic 
includes in its results any man who ‘has refused to give money to a woman’. 
The continued inclusion of such a question in a professional national survey 
costing millions of dollars of taxpayers money is profound. It is absolutely 
counter productive and reduces the survey purporting to document the very 
serious problem of domestic violence to an expression of the hatred of 
maleness (misandry). Any professional organization would recognize the 
damage such indulgence would do, yet this statistic comes out from the 
Office of Women’s Affairs, year after year with an expensive television 
advertising campaign adding more ‘grist for the mill’ amongst the rest of 
the dumb, stupid, anti male private advertisements that flood out of our TV 
screens.

“….The Club wishes to promote a domestic patriarchy. It is clear now that 
the domestic matriarchy established as a result of the 1974 Family Law Act 
has failed. The family in Australia is in crisis and as the basic unit 
within our democracy should be considered as an issue on a scale with global 
warming and nuclear waste”.

	Feminism has a tribal imperative in its singular focus. It claims to 
represent all women, and maintains a monopoly on Government and State 
positions of power with regard to women’s affairs. It also maintains 
enormous influence in the media and in the literature of Australia. There is 
no doubt that women’s affairs in Australia, is being driven by the feminist 
meta narrative. Feminism has no concern or responsibility to the larger 
tribe, the general population or the nation as a whole. Tribalism in general 
has gained credibility within left wing thinking as a strategy to empower 
the individual within nation states which have massively increased their 
populations during the twentieth century. We see local communities demanding 
roundabouts and speed humps in their suburbs to deter motorists using back 
roads to avoid tolled freeways. Small ethnic and cultural groups within the 
population have been able to bargain with state and federal governments for 
special consideration. Aboriginal tribal justice, over and above the law 
that the rest of the population is subject to, has proved an embarrassing 
failure in the vast majority of cases. Laws such as the Anti Vilification 
Law introduced by the Victorian Government under the Attorney General Rob 
Hulls have created confusing, ideologically driven moralities which have 
only served to further divide the state in favour of tribalism.

“…The Goodluck Club will lobby Governments of all persuations in Australia 
to develop a form of financial reward for families that stay together. A 
payment in the order of say $10,000 per year could be payed to families who 
stay together for seven years, rising to $15,000 after 10 years and then 
$20,000 after 15 years .Families with more than two children could also be 
financially rewarded, even if this level of funding requires a significant 
reduction in other areas of Government commitment.”

	The twenty first century is marked by a new quality of loneliness. 
Loneliness from any real knowledge or access to the technology that 
surrounds our domestic and working lives. Loneliness from our children 
either through divorce or child care centres. Lonely children abandoned by 
both their parents to work and the orders of the Family Law Court. 
Loneliness from our beloved, who always fall short of the monstrous images 
of sex and wealth portrayed by the American driven media narratives. 
Loneliness from our own authenticity and integrity due to ideological, 
psychological and sociological invasions of our spirit by so called 
educational forces. Loneliness from God due to the denial of scientific and 
progressive thought to consider any development of a concept that includes 
spiritual intelligence. Finally, the desperate loneliness of the old 
people’s home.

	“….This is the perfect gift for any father or grandfather to give their 
kids. A membership of The Goodluck Club for their eighteenth birthday, 
before they’ve had too much of a chance to spread their ‘wild seed’. You can 
make sure your kids and grandkids have a father around for life, and you can 
be sure you get to be a grandparent yourself”.

	There is a core group of first wave radical feminist lesbian women who have 
an over represented voice when it comes to issues concerning children. 
Alister Nicholoson openly campaigned for the right of lesbians to state 
funded IVF programs whilst he was the Chief Justice of the Family Law Court 
of Australia. Children are a heterosexual matter. If you like, the 
heterosexual tribe view children as sacred business. The homosexual 
relationship as one which exists between two adult men or women cannot 
produce children. Children are always the product of a heterosexual union. 
This may seem obvious, however it is necessary to emphasize because the gay 
lobby will contend that they should have the same rights to children as 
heterosexual couples. The truth is that they don’t, because they cannot 
produce children – terra nullius. Left thinking inspired notions of social 
engineering, have misled homosexual groups into a false belief that they 
have a right to have children by any means they can devise.
Homosexual Australians should have no say with regard to the heterosexual 
matters concerning marriage, children or abortion – it is none of their 
business.
	Inequality, positive discrimination and affirmative action, in the name of 
equal opportunity, equity and equality, have been in full operation 
throughout state and federal government systems for the past thirty years. 
We have seen this year two disastrous appointments by the Queensland 
government in the positions of Director of Public Prosecutions and Chief 
Magistrate. The Labour Party in particular has been consumed by pressure 
from feminists and organizations such as ‘Emily’s List’ run by Joan Kirner, 
to fast track women into winnable seats denying the usual processes to 
qualified experienced men. Mary Delahunty was one of these appointments 
which again proved to be disastrous in portfolio after portfolio. A 
newsreader a politician does not necessarily make. Great journalist, 
wonderful unforgettable interviews with Jeff Kennett, but no good at 
politics or administration – not education, nor town planning, not even the 
arts – quite understandable really.
	Political correctness came directly from feminism. It was initially called 
‘Consensus Decision Making’ back in the early seventies. We can gain a very 
good idea of the levels of feminization our culture has absorbed by looking 
at the levels of PC. When accused of PC, many lefties will deny its 
existence except as a right wing term of abuse, yet almost every citizen is 
confronted with institutionalized PC assumptions almost every day of their 
lives. It is alarmingly pervasive and often invisible and silent. The 
educational curriculums are shot through with PC as has been described by 
Kevin Donnally in his articles in The Australian and in Quadrant. Our birth 
rate and even the timing of the birth of our children are now driven by 
careers, levels of wealth, and equal opportunity policies rather than love. 
Our arts industries and government funding bodies are driven by PC 
guidelines rather than excellence.

“….The Goodluck Club encourages members and their lovers to study and sign 
our contract which guarantees our member full custody of his children for 
life before they marry”.

	The notion that there is ‘women’s business’ and ‘men’s business’ is one 
that I find some sympathy for. It is what the philosopher Alfred North 
Whitehead referred to as ‘first hand information’ – the information we 
collect by being or doing something. All other information, from history to 
the internet, he called ‘second hand information’. Second hand information 
is the information we gain from books, science and the internet. It is the 
information we use to try to change the world. We create civilization by 
trying to think about ourselves within history. Feminism evolved as a body 
of second hand information collected by women thinking about themselves and 
their role within society after centuries of first hand information. Anybody 
can gain second hand information and be on a more or less equal footing, but 
only the players can gain the authenticity and integrity that first hand 
information provides.
	That men have no control over women’s bodies is self evident. However, that 
men will continue to seek influence in any decision to abort or not abort 
their children, is also irrefutable. There is a huge energy of first hand 
information behind both these imperatives. Men cannot allow women to have 
absolute control over the life or death of their children within a civilized 
society. The burden of such a decision is morally unsustainable by the 
individual. No person can morally be asked by life to make such a decision. 
Yet they are. In Australia, about one hundred thousand women make that 
decision every year. So, perhaps ten times that many, a million women are 
required to consider abortion each year. That’s a lot of women in difficult 
circumstances with an impossible decision to make each year. Twice that, two 
million citizens will be massively effected by the decision, many, for the 
rest of their lives.

“….However if members decide to divorce they will both receive continuing 
counseling with regard to parenting children. The Club, for example, wishes 
to facilitate at least one full time parent with children for the first five 
years of their lives. The Club would advise members to exercise their core 
fathering role in the second part of their children’s lives rather than the 
first. ….Young children need mothers more than fathers and older children 
need fathers more than mothers.”

Men as well as women need to talk about feminism. It has become almost 
impossible for men to discuss or debate feminist issues anywhere in 
Australia. Not in literature, nor the media, not in private, in the 
workplace, the home, nor at social functions. It is a huge elephant in the 
room of Australia and the air is brittle with the electricity of the silence 
between the genders. We have to be impossibly careful to avoid constant 
argument. The essence of the genders does not agree about much at all. Men 
still want to go to the moon, and women want to look after the planet.
It has now become crystal clear that Australian women want free childcare. 
All the studies indicate that children who spend significant amounts of time 
in child care centres perform worse later in life. The feminist 
intellectual, Anne Manne was denounced by feminism for daring to speak 
against childcare. Children from child care centres are significantly over 
represented in drug and alcohol programs and in mental health areas. All the 
second hand information that has been gathered indicates that children need 
at least one full time parent for the first five years of their lives. Yet 
Australian feminism, both the left and the right, is the major driving force 
behind the push for more and free child care. There are many families with 
two parents working, who drop their children into child care at 7 a.m. in 
the morning and pick them up at 6 p.m. at night, four and five days every 
week. An even higher proportion of these marriages fail, probably through 
exhaustion. At least half these marriages last less than seven years.
	It is remarkable that one has to finally arrive at the conclusion that 
feminism is anti family. The voices of Bettina Arnt and Camille Paglia have 
grown feint with absence, and the women’s movement is now locked down in 
defending the level of abortion in Australia, promoting free child care for 
women, encouraging mothers back into the workforce, and attacking men 
through outrageous definitions of domestic violence. Feminism has given 
Australian women a belief in unequal opportunity. That they have rights to 
positive discrimination and affirmative action. Australian women expect to 
be treated better than Australian men, and they are. They expect to live 
longer, and they do, They see this not only as a right, but as retribution. 
Australian men deserve a better deal with regard to children, the family and 
life in general. They definitely deserve a fair go.

“….The Goodluck Club wishes to grow the Australian family into a powerful, 
profound and beautiful lifelong experience that every Australian citizen can 
be transformed by.”


The Goodluck Club seeks expressions of interest.
Please write to
700 Drummond St
Carlton Nth
Vic 3054
Ph: 041 222 46 44 (for further information)


Patrick McCauley is a Melbourne poet and essayist.




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Thanks Jen - a sort of masochistic curiosity prompts me to ask you to
post the essay, though I think I know the thesis already -

Cheers

A

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