Adjudication No. 1435  (adjudicated September 2009)

The Australian Press Council has dismissed a complaint by John Flanagan, an officer of the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting), about a July 8 article by Adele Horin in The Sydney Morning Herald.

The article headed Divorced men better off but not happier referred to a press release of an analysis by the Australian Institute of Family Studies into the long-lasting financial impacts of divorce for women.

Mr Flanagan complained that the journalist misinterpreted the analysis "in such a way to achieve an outcome that wrongly suits a feminist agenda."

In its response the newspaper rejected this complaint and said the article was a fair, accurate and balanced report.

The newspaper also supplied an email from the lead researcher on the project attesting to the article's fairness and balance.

In dismissing the complaint the Australian Press Council has reviewed the analysis in the press release and agrees with the lead researcher's assessment of the article.

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