So women who desire a career in the medical profession should accept sexual abuse?

That's the message that one surgeon is giving - and as bad as that may seem, it's worse when you find out that she is a woman.  I call that betrayal.

Sexual abuse is never acceptable.  Never.   If it goes unreported then the victim will never see justice but - even worse - the culprit will continue their abuse of the victim, and others - and will likely expand the level of abuse.

Unacceptable.

There needs to be protection against reprisal.
There needs to be transparency in these matters.
There needs to be a learning and working environment where people are treated fairly, with dignity and equality.

Women (or indeed men) should never be told to 'suck it up' - my words. 

Dr Gabrielle McMullin, your advise is a disgrace to your profession and your sex.

Read the news item here:

Surgeon blows whistle

Time has passed - but the stupidity lingers.

She has been found guilty of manslaughter - and received a 2 year suspended sentence.   And yet, "Justice Hoeben said that the mother-of-one believed her “act was necessary” to defend herself and her family."







If she believed it was necessary then why the suspended sentence?


How many times have we read of those on bail who go on to kill?  How many times have we read of the victims of violence and tut-tutted about it.  Well here's a case where the victim didn't die - not because our so-called justice system saved her but because she was forced to fight for her self and her family.  Instead of applauding this outcome, our so-called justice system punishes her for it - with a suspended sentence.

Read all about it : http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/domestic-violence-victim-jessica-silva-guilty-of-manslaughter-but-avoids-jail-for-killing-her-ex-boyfriend/story-fnii5s3x-1227251919788

On the 6th August, 2013, a Victorian magistrate confessed to molesting two teenage brothers and was expected to quit his post on the bench.

Expected to quit his post on the bench.....

The very thought that he would not be SACKED from the role astounds me and should astound every Australian citizen.

He confessed.  He molested two teenage brothers.  And he gets to quit?????

Oh, but it is worse. According to the Herald Sun (no link yet but see below) there are no plans to review his handling of similar offenses during his eleven months on the bench.

No plans to review his handling of similar offenses....

How often has Wonko the Sane brought into question the sanity OR corrupt nature of the justices and magistrates that so often let loose the criminal while the victims spend their entire lives - if they are 'lucky to live' torn apart?

Here's proof of judicial corruption.

And just to PROVE that the rest of our justice department are corrupt - they are letting his decisions stand unchecked. 

After a year or more, Wonko the Sane is back.  He speaks.  It is time - more than time - that Australian's got off their back sides and demanded a fairer justice system.  Because the one we have is shit.

The Hall of Shame is Set to get BIGGER!

In typical fashion, those who knife, murder and peddle drugs are set to get even less punishment!  According to an item in The Age today:

JUDGES are too harsh on many offenders, according to the state's highest court, which this year ordered that more than 50 criminals should have their sentences cut.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tougher-sentencing-blow-20111230-1pfnr.html#ixzz1i4X3erE6

Just take a few minutes to read the Justice Hall of Shame and you'll see why this is a travesty and why Wonko the Sane believes that the Australian Justice system is either corrupt as hell or totally out of touch with reality.  

How can it be anything else when someone who kills a child gets less years in gaol than the child has lived whereas the killer of a convicted gangland killer and drug wholesaler gets 30 years? 

Explain the common sense in that and perhaps the public will stop being up in arms.

If Australian Justices do not want the label of CORRUPT or STUPID then they need to rethink their actions.  If they truly feel that a sentence is justified then perhaps it would be better to explain that justification - because few Australians can see the logic, only that violence and the life-long sentence imposed on victims and their families is unimportant.

And that simply isn't true.

OPEN LETTER TO JULIA GILLARD

Since she has either disabled online submission OR most of Australia is appalled at her lack of ethics or morals and are bringing the site down OR Senator Conroy has been meddling again, here is the letter I TRIED to send her...

Refusing to allow a conscience vote on live animal exports reveals you to be a compassionless and ruthless dictator and I will rejoice when the compassionate society that you evidently despise unite at election time to remove you from a job you are clearly unsuited for.

And while I normally have grown in fifty years to assume that the term 'Honourable' which is applied to elected government officials is one largely sarcastic in nature, it seems clear to me that in your case this is very true indeed. You can introduce carbon taxes, you can fiddle about with this or that - we, as Australians, do not have to agree with decisions such as these because frankly, they are decisions based on a certain amount of rationale and logic. But by withholding the right to cross the floor on an issue which is ethical you are being UN ethical and are no longer fit to be a Prime Minister of Australia.

Please note that I am hardly alone in this opinion. Be sure that come the day, most Australians will remember and ensure that you go. Pity you'll get pay for life - if I was a Prime Minister I'd stop that damn quick. But at least the majority of Australians who believe in FREEDOM OF CHOICE and who are appalled less at the animal export issue as to the fact that you wield your power of office over people on moral and ethical issues will get their chance and you will NOT see a second term.

Big News - Our Justice System Got It Right (for once)

No Jail Time For Obsessive-Compulsive women who left maggot infested mother to die on kitchen floor

Naturally, the press headlines are clear about the case but fortunately, and quite out of keeping with our normal run of the mill justice system, Justice Paul Coghlan has got it right.

Carers have it tough and in many cases they can be the victims of life-long manipulation and control and, yes, training, by those that they end up caring for.

It is not as simple as saying 'they should have done the right thing' because after a lifetime in a relationship that bonds far tighter and more restrictive than even marriage, the 'right thing' can be impossible.

Naturally, the mother should not have been left to die on the floor.
Naturally, she should not have been 'maggot infested'.

But things are rarely that simple.

Of all those surveyed recently, Carers have the lowest self-esteem, the highest levels of stress and the worst health. Many are chronically depressed, almost all are isolated.

And in 2003 there were 2.7 million carers but less than 300,000 received Centrelink benefits which means the rest (2.4 million!) were doing it the hard way.

So when these isolated, depressed and physically and emotionally exhausted people do not respond like you or I do, they do not need jail. They need support.

Do you work weekends? Carers do.
Are you on call 24 hours a day? Carers are.
Do you have annual leave? Carers don't.
Do you have long service leave? Carers don't.
Do you have Public Holidays? CARERS DON'T.

Carer's don't even have superannuation.

In this one case, justice has prevailed.

For another carer, Agnieszka Miller, justice has been denied. As has compassion. As has understanding.

Boycott United Arab Emirates!

While every country is entitled to their own laws, they are also responsible to ensure that such laws are just. This is not the case in the United Arab Emirates. There, a woman can be forced to have sex - it's called rape in more advanced countries - and then sent to prison because she did.

Please acquaint yourself with the case of Alicia Gali. She is the victim of rape but due to the justice system in that county she is the one who was sent to prison for eight months because "it is illegal in the UAE to have sex outside marriage".

This situation is disgusting - not because she is an Australian who have been assaulted and violated which is bad enough, but because the practice of rape in that country evidently has no legal precedent.

Until changes are made to protect the rights of women it should be every Australian's duty to boycott the United Arab Emirates, Starwood Hotels and any other business associated with this criminal justice system.

Wonko will not suffer any connection with UAE until justice is done. That is the opinion of Wonko the Sane.