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11: Child Abducted from the United States Found Safe in Australia | November 23, 2013

For the past six years, an unassuming home in a quiet pocket of Sunshine Coast suburbia has housed the answer to a two-decade mystery…



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12: Mother fled with son to stop abuse, court told | October 17, 2013

A mother who secretly took her son to live overseas in the middle of a custody dispute says she did so to stop the boy’s father abusing him, asking a jury “what would you risk if you thought your little boy was in danger?”..



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13: ‘Divorced’ girl takes fight to Australian court | September 10, 2013

A 28-year-old girl from Ahmedabad has made her fight for justice cross the seven seas. She has approached the Federal Circuit Court of Australia which had allowed her husband to divorce her without hearing her side of the story. The court has taken cognizance of her email and will decide on Wednesday if her statement can be recorded through video-conferencing…



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14: Sydney dad will fight child abduction charges | July 31, 2013

A SYDNEY man charged with abducting his teenage ex-girlfriend and their baby at knifepoint has denied the allegations and will fight the charges using a series of text messages…



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15: Single mum caught in $17,000 Centrelink rort | July 11, 2013

A SINGLE mother will have to repay more than $15,000 in Centrelink overpayments she claimed while working for an insurance company…



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16: Centrelink fraudster’s get out of jail card | May 11, 2013

A Berkeley man will avoid spending the next six months in jail as long as he keeps paying back the $22,000 he illegally pocketed from Centrelink…



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17: Coast mum given six years’ jail for $2m Centrelink fraud | April 12, 2013

A $2 million payment error was deposited into a Sunshine Coast mum’s bank account because a child support worker typed the date into the payment field on her computer…



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18: Shock pre-nup court decision | April 10, 2013

A FATHER of two from Balgowlah has been awarded up to $800,000 in damages after he successfully sued his lawyers for negligence claiming a pre-nup they created was useless in shielding his assets from a divorce…



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19: Call to discount IVF for embryo donors | January 20, 2013

PROSPECTIVE parents could receive discounted fertility treatment if they promise to donate some of their embryos to other people, under a proposal to deal with the problem of thousands of unwanted embryos sitting in clinic freezers…



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20: Legal aid cuts ‘not in interest of children’ | January 8, 2013

Legal Aid announced the widest-ranging changes to its guidelines in its history last month as it braced itself for a deficit of more than $3.1 million this financial year. The deficit followed unprecedented demand for its services, which has been driven by the Victoria Police and the Baillieu government’s greater focus on preventing family violence…