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11: Child Support Program: Cost Cutting Practices a Disaster for All | March 21, 2015

The positive outcomes of the cancelled outreach program is in stark contrast to the overwhelmingly poor feedback regarding their contact with the Department’s Child Support Program (formerly the Child Support Agency)…


The 27-year-old Lebanese student and the 12-year-old Australian girl spent their wedding night as a motel in the Hunter region of NSW where they had sex several times
12: TEN years jail for Marrying 12 y/o girl in Islamic Ceremony | March 8, 2015

A man who married a 12-year-old girl in an Islamic ceremony in New South Wales is jailed for at least seven and a half years, and up to a maximum of ten years…


foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
13: Child Suffering Foetal Alcohol Disorder Denied Compensation | March 2, 2015

A British court has found that a mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy was not a criminal offence, and so has denied a damages claim made on behalf of her disabled daughter. However, this poses obvious ethical dilemmas, particularly appertaining to the effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy on the child…


Lawyer Linda Gyorki & Penelope Vye
14: Free Legal Support under the Cloak of Hospital Care | October 17, 2014

Solicitors who specialise in helping female victims of Domestic Violence have been providing free, clandestine legal support to suspected victims of family violence, in hospital settings, while they have been receiving treatment for suspicious injuries. ..


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15: Separated parents: Children under four and overnight stays | July 4, 2014

The idea that young children under four should not spend any nights away from their primary attachment figure usually the mother, is a hotly contested idea.

English parenting guru Penelope Leach has quoted Australian researchers in her new book about separated families, but the researchers say they are unhappy with her interpretation of their research.

What does this Australian research actually say and how is it being used in the Family Court?..


Mixed Results in Violence Rates Across NSW
16: Mixed Results in Violence Rates Across NSW | June 3, 2014

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said the figures showed almost half (47 per cent) involved incidents between parents and their children…


gender dysphoria
17: One Parent’s account of Gender Dysphoria | February 13, 2014

We decided we needed to seek professional help and we found it at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne where they have a Gender Dysphoria Service. (This service is the only fully dedicated gender service for children in this country and is terribly underfunded.)..


advanced care directives
18: Too much medicine wasted on the dying, end-of-life care report says | November 18, 2013

A QUARTER of the nation’s health budget is devoted to futile end-of-life care that strips patients of a dignified death and means healthier people have their surgery delayed…


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19: Mother charged over misleading Family Court in custody battle | November 6, 2013

A MOTHER has been jailed after she submitted a false drug test as part of a custody battle in the Family Court…


Hon. Bob Such
20: Doctors fight to kill South Australian euthanasia bill | June 5, 2013

A group of Australian doctors opposed to the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide has written to all South Australian House of Assembly MPs condemning Hon. Bob Such’s ‘Ending Life with Dignity Bill’ 2013…