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1: Court rules doctors can operate on baby’s brain, despite parents’ objection | July 13, 2018

A baby suffering from a severe form of epilepsy will undergo brain surgery in a bid to stop his seizures, despite refusal for the procedure by the baby’s parents, after the Supreme Court ruled it was in the child’s best interests…




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2: NSW gun law reforms considered after John Edwards murder-suicide | July 10, 2018

FIREARMS checks would be linked to Family Court proceedings and the opinions of ex-wives and even doctors would be sought before a person is granted a licence under major reforms to be discussed this morning to stop tragedies like John Edwards shooting dead his Pennant Hills teenage kids…




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3: Karl Stefanovic’s and Cassandra Thorburn’s Divorce Details Revealed | June 25, 2018

Karl Stefanovic will reportedly pay his ex-wife, Cassandra Thorburn, $35,000 of child support a month, following the recent divorce of the couple…




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4: Woman wins right to dead boyfriend’s sperm | June 20, 2018

A court has said yes today to a Brisbane woman who has been fighting for the right to have a child using her dead boyfriend’s sperm. It’s a vexed issue for some and this ruling is being described as landmark…




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5: Can I See My Grandchildren if their Mother Says “No”? | June 16, 2018

What the law says about grandparents seeing their grandchildren when the parents say no..




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6: Evil ex-wife seeks to inherit deceased ex-husband’s fortune, despite years of false allegations | June 7, 2018

Former spouse, who engaged in a relentless campaign of false allegations of physical and sexual abuse after the divorce, makes claim on late ex-husband’s substantial estate 25 years after separation. Did she get anything?..




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7: Judge slams agency after ‘flimsy’ claims see child removed from carer | April 10, 2018

A judge has slammed the actions of a government-contracted welfare agency as “shoddy” and “shameful” in removing a six-year-old girl from her foster carer on the flimsy claims of her mischievous older brothers…




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8: Dad wrongfully jailed on false child sexual abuse allegations seeks compensation | January 3, 2018

A father who was wrongfully jailed after his estranged partner accused him of sexually abusing his own son has vowed to turn “his worst nightmare” into a greater good and help iron out faults in WA’s justice system…




Christian Democratic Party leader Fred Nile. Photo: Jon Reid
9: Fred Nile gives renewed push to Zoe’s law to criminalise harm to a fetus | October 17, 2017

The bill known as Zoe’s Law would amend the Crimes Act to make it a crime to harm or destroy a child in utero…




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10: Court rules on parents’ dispute about sending their children to private schools | September 28, 2017

A divorced mother, known by her court appointed pseudonym as Ms Stewart, has sought an Order from the Court that her two children, one boy and one girl, upon reaching high school age, should be enrolled in two prestigious same-sex private schools, the son of which to follow in the father’s family tradition, she claimed, and attend the father’s and grandfather’s alma mater…