News Articles
July 12, 2009 - Court puts women in danger
A WOMEN'S refuge was forced to change its name after its identity was revealed during a child custody case before the Federal Magistrates Court last week...more
June 25, 2009 - Parents parade wounds in Court protest
A group of "blood-stained" and bandaged parents paraded at NSW Parliament House today, calling on the Family Court to stop ordering children to see abusive parents...more
June 22, 2009 - Canberra Bandage Parade Protest at Parliament House makes an impact
Concerned parents and professionals gathered in Canberra on Monday June 22, 2009, to protest current family laws. Sprawling across the lawns of Parliament House, wrapped in bloodied bandages...more
June 17, 2009 - For a safer system
protesters campaigned for a safer family law system in Newcastle last week more
June 11, 2009 - Safer Family Law Radio interview
Radio interview with Freda Briggs, Emeritus Professor and childhood expert, University of SA - interviewed by Lainie Anderson, Radio 5aa, Adelaide - listen to the interview here
June 11,2009 - Rally makes quiet point to help protect children
AN army of protesters marched in silence through Newcastle mall yesterday to signify the closed suffering they said children were forced to endure through Australia's family law system...more
May 22, 2009 - Abuse reporting unified
AN overhaul of commonwealth agencies dealing with the public has been ordered, to create a single approach to reporting child abuse and domestic violence more
May 10, 2009 - Mum jailed for telling son she loves him
A woman has been denied access to her children for three years, accused of trying to turn them against their father more
May 5, 2009 - More power needed for abused kids
When her three-year-old boy came home from an access visit with his daddy asking to be touched in private places, a Sunshine Coast mum was aghast more
May 4, 2009 - Hinch Blog: Family Court Faults
Over the years I have received - and continue to receive - more tortured, emotional, sad and frustrating mail about one subject than probably any other more
Includes an mp3 of the full radio broadcast of an interview with Dionne Fehring, whose two children, both under two years of age, were killed in a murder-suicide that she says followed a bad Family Court decision
May 4, 2009 - Push is on to review family law
A NATIONAL campaign against family violence has called for urgent changes to the Family Law Act to protect children from violence by fathers during court-imposed access visits more
May 4, 2009 - Anger At Law That Fails Children
THE names of 22 children killed by their fathers on access visits hung from a makeshift clothesline in a city park yesterday as more than 100 women and some men gathered to vent their anger at the Family Court of Australia and the law it must enforce. more
May 3, 2009 - The Chief Justice of the Family Court has a battle on her hands
CHIEF Justice Diana Bryant is a judge caught in a crossfire. The battleground is not the sordid, blood-soaked trial of a gangland criminal. It is the far more thorny, emotive and mercurial landscape of family law more
May 3, 2009 - Court ruling 'right'
THE death of Darcey Freeman cannot be blamed on the Family Court's handling of her family's break-up and the tragedy could not have been predicted, the court's Chief Justice says more
May 3, 2009 - Suffer the little children
IT WAS 3am on Anzac Day when Dionne Fehring woke in fear. She was in her mother and stepfather's Tallebudgera house on the Gold Coast, the house she'd fled to after her marriage turned irrevocably violent. "I felt that there was something wrong. Just had that natural mother's instinct," she says now more
May 2, 2009 - For The Sake Of The Children
Divorced and separated fathers get a greater share of child care, but this has not always benefited offspring, writes Adele Horin more
May 2, 2009 - Judge calls for urgent changes to family law
NEW provisions in the Family Law Act may be dissuading women from raising allegations of family violence and should be removed, the Chief Justice of the Family Court, Diana Bryant, has said more
May 2, 2009 - Bid to ease blackout on custody cases
Prominent journalists are starring in YouTube videos calling on the federal Government to change the law regarding the identification of children involved in Family Court proceedings. The law states that children who are injured or killed cannot be named or identified with photographs if they were involved in a custody case before the Family Court more
April 27, 2009 - My Ex Killed My Babies
Dionne Dalton is figting back after facing every mother's worst nightmare more
April 02, 2009 - Fathers Fight Back - Father wins residential custody
A Father living in Melbourne has won residential custody of his two children currently living with their mother in Tasmania, as it was found that the Mother wasn't actively encouraging the children to maintain a good relationship with their Father more