A specialist court for domestic violence and sexual assault cases would be established by a NSW Labor government, deputy opposition leader Linda Burney stated recently.
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Retired Family Court judge Richard Chisholm has written a blueprint for overhauling Australia’s Family Law Act recommending the removal of Shared Parenting as a potential outcome in Family Law Court proceedings…

On 27 March 2014, the Minister for Social Services, the Hon Kevin Andrews MP, asked the Parliament to inquire into and report on the Child Support Program…

What is Sharia law? Dr Jamila Hussain, a research associate at the University of Technology Sydney told SBS, Sharia encompasses all aspects of a Muslim’s life…

Former NSW premier Nick Greiner and his wife, Kathryn, have agreed to separate after more than four decades of marriage…

A Communist Party official is relieved of his duties after a contract between him and his mistress leaked onto the internet revealing how the pair had agreed binding terms for their illicit affair…

As Gough Whitlam’s attorney general, he was Australia’s first law officer. Today he and his wife keep his and hers jars of the banned drug Nembutal for the day they decide they want to die..

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, legalising voluntary euthanasia, was defeated in the Tasmanian House of Assembly 13 votes to 11 following speaker-at-the-time Michael Polley’s vote. This is a far narrower margin compared to 2009, where similar legislation was defeated by 15 votes to 7…

Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…

The New South Wales Health Minister and Attorney-General have taken opposing sides over proposed legislation to change the legal definition of an unborn child. MPs will be allowed a conscience vote on the private member’s bill, which is designed to allow criminal liability for the death of a foetus that is at least 20 weeks old. Currently, charges can only be laid over the injury or death of the mother…