Dear all

Sorry I haven’t been active at all but some (good) people have thank goodness! You might want to put your ideas forward to this:

https://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/Proposed-amendments-to-the-Family-Law-Act-1975-to-respond-to-family-violence.aspx

it opens OK for me if not look on www.ag.gov.au – search amendments to family law act

or this might help https://aifs.gov.au/publications/families-policy-and-law/21-family-...

This is why THE FAMILY COURT REFUSES TO USE OUTSIDE EXPERTS!!!! TO HIDE ABUSE

From Safe Kids International posted by Alan Ryan December 2016  NOTE I tried to put this on J4C blog just now but it didn't seem to work - trying again!)

Report from the Late Professor Freda Briggs Emeritus Professor in Child Development University of South Australia Magill Campus SA5072 on the child rape of the Watter Twins

Contact Supervisor’s Reports

I have read 93 reports writt...

You've probably all seen this but FYI:

http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/shared-parenting-father/?utm_source=edm&utm_medium=mc&utm_campaign=daily

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/searching-for-a-way-to-kinghit-violence/story-e6frg6zo-1226794513540#

weedy unpublishable letter from me to The Australian newspaper today -...

In the last 2 weeks at least 8 children that we know of have lost any meaningful contact with the mothers they love, have always lived with and want to be with.

What does this do to a child? Some are less than 5 years old, taken from their Mum in the most hostile and inhumane circumstances.  Who explains to them what happened? 

Nobody in the court system asked them what they wanted - nobody listened to what they tried to say.

How can these abuses of children's hum...

Mother refused bail after court appearance

16:52 AEST Wed Mar 16 2011

Mar 16, 2011

A 48-year-old mother has been refused bail in a Sydney court on charges relating to taking her child out of Australia without permission.

Melinda Margaret Thompson, the wife of former NSW deputy fire chief Ken Thompson, appeared in Central Local Court on Monday, March 14.

She was refused bail by Magistrate Julie Huber, who adjourned the case to the same court on April 6.

Acco...

The Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 should be coming before  Parliament  this session

For many children involved in the family law process this Bill is extremely important - even though it does not go far enough to protect children.