Firstly, I want to say thank you for volunteering your services to combat pedophilia. Pedophiles are so well organised they have infiltrated universities with lecturers in Newcastle Australia amongst other Australian universities handing out lecture notes advocating pedophilia. One of these lecturers, Dr Terry Leahy was given a PhD for his dissertation which claims to show that pedophilia will not damage children if done properly. His argument is based on a tiny sample of interviews he got from advertising in an underground pro-pedophile newsletter.
He and his associates are still teaching in Australian universities despite being exposed as advocates of pedophilia who will have an insidious effect on social science students.
The second article is about Assoc Prof Ann Daniel, who as head of department of Sociology and Social Anthropology did similar things, but in her case, as she had large financial investments in illegal brothels. Lecturers in her department advocated prostitution.
As you can see from the article, she had no conscience about leaving two orphans destitute after she became executor of an estate of a deceased brothel owner. The brothel owner intended in her will to provide financially for the two orphans. As a doctoral student in her department I was given hell from constant bullying.
There was no material reason to bully me so badly and I would always survive once the university intervened. Despite surviving and getting a doctorate, the bullying meant my career prospects were very poor, as I would need a department member to give me a good reference.
The only attempt to support me getting employment was when my supervisor spent half an hour to try to persuade me to work as a prostitute. I was in my early 40s and quite beautiful. As a cultured and highly educated woman, they would have been able to charge a lot of money for me. I declined the disgusting proposition and did get my PhD.
Of course, I have been battling unemployment ever since.
If you posted these articles on your website, it could help warn people of the insidious effect that educators have in spreading harmful ideas. These people are malicious and pedophilia is a big problem in Australia. I would greatly appreciate it, if for my safety you removed my identity if you decide to post this.
Pub: SUN HERALD
Pubdate: 26-May-1996
Edition: Late
Section: News
Subsection:
Page: 9
Wordcount: 399
Fears of academic witch hunt
By CANDACE SUTTON
POLICE have handed over the study notes of two sociology lecturers to the
Wood royal commission, following a complaint by a colleague.
Documents from lectures about attitudes to "intergenerational sex" and "the
culture of sexual minorities", taught by Newcastle University academics
Terry Leahy and Jim Wafer, have been handed to the commission's response
unit after a fellow lecturer gave the material to Newcastle Police.
Dr Leahy, who refused to speak to The Sun-Herald, created controversy in
academic circles in 1991 with his PhD thesis, Negotiating Stigma: Approaches
To Intergenerational Sex, which questioned whether pedophile activity should
be regarded as deviant.
Mr Wafer, who is overseas, lectures on the Culture of Sexual Minorities at
Newcastle's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Dr Barry Morris, acting department head at Newcastle University, said he
found the notions of censorship raised by the investigation into his
lecturer's teachings "more disturbing than what they are actually teaching".
According to a copy obtained by The Sun-Herald of reading notes for the
subject SOCA 223, which he taught in 1995, Mr Wafer lectures that pedophilia
is a common and accepted historical phenomenon, from the ancient Greeks to
native tribes, both ancient and modern and including Australian Aborigines.
The reading notes include a paper called Thinking Sex: Notes For A Radical
Theory Of The Politics Of Sexuality by American academic Gayle S Rubin who
argues: "Boy lovers are so stigmatised that is difficult to find defenders
for their civil liberties, let alone for their erotic orientation.
Consequently, the police have feasted on them."
Detective Sergeant Peter Huxley, of the Newcastle Child Protection
Investigation Unit, said while the lecture material "was not against the
law" it might have an insidious influence on young students.
NSW University Sociology Department head, Dr Jan Daniel, said Dr Leahy had
caused consternation among colleagues with his paper on "intergenerational"
sex written for the Australia And New Zealand Journal Of Sociology.
Dr Daniel said: "Some sociologists would say that sex with children is not a
proper topic for research."
However, Dr Gary Dowsett, sociology lecturer at Macquarie University, said
the notion of censoring academic research was alarming.
"What I am concerned about in this debate is the academic freedom to
criticise, research and teach," he said.
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald
Pubdate: 21-Nov-1994
Edition: Late
Section: News and Features
Subsection:
Page: 3
Wordcount: 760
ORPHANS WIN IN A LEGAL BATTLE WITH JUST A TOUCH OF FARCE
By KATE McCLYMONT
In what the judge described as "a remarkable case", during which one witness
threw pea soup at another, an unusual cast of characters gave evidence in a
dispute surrounding the estate of the late "madam" of one of Sydney's most
famous brothels.
Mrs Zara Therese Walker-Powell, who died of cancer in June 1989, was famous
for her association with "bordellos" - a term she preferred - including the
Sydney brothel A Touch of Class. The defendants were the executors of her
will.
The first executor was her brother, Dr Raymond James Burn, who conducts a
medical practice in Chippendale as well as being a barrister with chambers
in Macquarie Street. The second executor was his wife, Dr Ann Daniel, an
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of NSW, and the third was
Dr Burn's son, Gregory, a Sydney solicitor.
The plaintiffs were Mrs WalkerPowell's two grand-daughters, J and H, aged 17
and 13, whose parents are dead.
At one point during the case, things became so heated that one of Mrs
Walker-Powell's sons, Richard, threw pea soup over his brother, James. Both
men were plaintiffs in the case but later withdrew their claims.
In his judgment handed down this month, Judge Bryson held that J and H were
at least partly dependent on their grandmother for almost all their lives
until she died. Their father offered no support and their mother, Rebecca,
Mrs Walker-Powell's daughter, was described as being unable to look after
even herself.
In her will Mrs Walker-Powell showed her wish to look after them by giving
them her residuary estate. However, the executors left them totally
unprovided for.
Judge Bryson said the claims Dr Burn and Dr Daniel made against the estate
were quite wrong and in some cases obviously false.
According to evidence, Mrs Walker-Powell had previously managed A Touch of
Class and, after leaving that position in October 1986, put to Dr Burn and
Dr Daniel that they help her establish a "truly splendid bordello" to be
known as Zazzi's in a house they owned at 54 City Road, Chippendale. This
they did.
After Mrs Walker-Powell died they claimed her estate owed them
around$230,000 for various things including renovations and at least 37
weeks' rent from the brothel at $500 a week. However, the judge found that
"there is no clear corroboration and in other cases there is no
corroboration at all" for these supposed debts.
He said that although Mrs Walker-Powell was the principal of the business,
there was only "a modest distance" between Dr Burn and Dr Daniel in the
conduct of "this unlawful establishment".
Dr Burn and Dr Daniel also gave evidence that shortly before her death, Mrs
Walker-Powell gave them $200,000 to take her on a trip to Europe as well as
providing for her for the rest of her life. Judge Bryson said it was clear
that she did not have long to live. As it turned out Dr Burn and Dr Daniel
paid nothing, not even her medical or nursing expenses.
The judge was scathing about the actions of Dr Burn and Dr Daniel, whom he
described as "people of wealth", and listed the 14 properties they owned. He
described J and H as "penniless children with no parents, no livelihood and
no means of making their way in the world".
The couple was ordered to pay $45,000 to the children's grandfather for his
past expenses; $11,044.10 for school fees owed for H, who is attending a
Sydney boarding school; $80,000 to the Public Trustee on trust for J, who is
boarding with a family on the North Coast and attending alocal high school;
and $100,000 to be paid to the Public Trustee on H's behalf.
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald
Pubdate: 07-Jul-1989
Edition: Late
Section: News and Features
Subsection:
Page: 1
Wordcount: 576
ZARA, THE CONVENT GIRL WHO BUILT A BROTHEL
By TONY STEPHENS
Mrs Zara Powell died in Sydney yesterday.
Mrs Powell, educated at Rose Bay Convent, was a student of history at
Macquarie University, a former charge nurse at St Vincent's Hospital, a
mother of four at Pennant Hills and a grandmother. She was also Sydney's
best known bordello owner.
"Bordello", because Mrs Powell did not much like the word "brothel" and
opposed the use of euphemisms like "massage parlour". It seems reasonable at
times like this to respect the preferences of the dead.
She died from cancer, after a long illness. She was 57.
Mrs Powell became known to the public only a few years ago, when she ran A
Touch of Class, perhaps Sydney's best known bordello. She described herself
as general manager, not liking the term madam, either. More recently she ran
her own establishment, Zazzi's.
Zazzi's was open for business as usual last night, but it will close on
Monday for the funeral, when "working girls" will join mourners from all
walks of life.
Not long before her death, two nuns, two prostitutes, a shopkeeper and a
media representative crowded into her room at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Wallhangings from Linda Jackson, a friend, hung on the wall.
Dr Ann Daniel, a sociologist and Mrs Powell's sister-in-law, who was at the
death bed, said: "She was against hypocrisy. And she was discreet. Some of
the best known men in the land passed through her doors."
Mrs Powell entered the bordello business a little over a decade ago, but had
much to do with bringing the question of prostitution into the open.
She approached running a bordello like running a hospital ward - orderly and
safely. She described herself as a feminist who did not believe men were the
enemy. She acted as a consultant to the NSW parliamentary inquiry into
prostitution.
Her daughter, Miss Lucinda Powell, said last night: "Her four children loved
her. She was a great friend, generous and caring. I think she had great
wisdom. She ran her business with grace, authority and goodwill. Then she
did things like adopt South American children through World Vision and we'd
steam vegetables and watch silly movies together."
Mrs Powell returned to Catholicism about four months ago. Father Terry
Kelly, national director of the Catholic Enquiry Centre, was at her bedside
yesterday. He said: "I came to have a great affection for her. She died with
the sacraments of the Church."
She had lived at Pennant Hills until divorce left her a single mother. She
returned to nursing, moved to Crown Street and accepted a job as a
receptionist at the nearby Touch of Class.
She helped write a book two years ago, Memories of a Touch of Class, which
critics saw as a superficial defence of prostitution. She was studying for
an Arts degree, with a particular interest in Greek and Roman history and
the history of women.
A requiem mass will be held at 1.30 pm on Monday, at the Chapel of the
Resurrection, Sydney University.
Caption:
Illus: Zara Powell: well-known men passed through her doors.
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