Anti-Parental Alienation author argues for offence to not be included in DV legislation

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2021/02/04/the-amendment-threatening-to-derail-the-domestic-abuse-bill/?cmpredirecth Grant Wyeth is an academic at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne and a columnist for the Asia-Pacific affairs publication, The Diplomat.  He has a forthcoming journal article in Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly on the phenomenon of Parental Alienation.: sWyeth has written an article that is full of misinformation, and despicable commentary,

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Law closing in on judges over conduct

Law closing in on judges over conduct Attorney-General Christian Porter has sought legal advice on the design of a judicial complaints agency. Picture: Getty Images EXCLUSIVE NICOLA BERKOVIC LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT AN HOUR AGO FEBRUARY 11, 2021 NO COMMENTS Federal judges would be overseen by a new agency that could investigate allegations of corruption and other

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Former White Ribbon Chair, Andrew O’Keefe facing DV charge

Channel 7 personality Andrew O’Keefe facing domestic violence charge By John Buckley January 31, 2021 — 6.24pm Sydney Morning Herald Save Share   Channel 7 host and former White Ribbon chairman, Andrew O’Keefe, was arrested by police and charged over an alleged domestic assault on his partner in Sydney overnight. Arrested in the early hours of

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Mums fight for legal rights of their sons

NICOLA BERKOVIc Nathan Katterns and daughter Iyla, who was murdered by her mother; below, Sarah Jane Parkinson, who was jailed for falsely accusing her fiance of rape           All Iyla Katterns wanted was a pink surfboard so she could learn to surf like her dad, Nathan. But she never got the

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Opening Statement by Professor Augusto Zimmermann to the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System (Public Hearing, 8 July 2020)

July 10, 2020 Augusto Zimmermann The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System was appointed by resolution of the Senate on 18 September 2019 and resolution of the House of Representatives on 19 September 2019. The terms of reference of the committee’s inquiry explicitly require the committee to consider the present operation of the family

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NSW Inquiry into adding “Coercive Control” to DV laws

We are asking people to respond to a NSW Inquiry into new legislation dealing with “Coercive Control”. As I have said previously, the women’s groups think this is going to play out in their favour, but I think men who are victims of domestic (family) violence would be more likely to be abused across the

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Woman charged with murder of own father in NSW domestic attack

NSW domestic attack 9News Staff  16 hrs ago Woman charged with murder of own father in NSW domestic attack A 23-year-old woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing her own father to death in a domestic attack near Newcastle. Police were called to home at Ronald Street, Tenambit in the NSW Hunter region at

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Happiness to horror: mum’s fatal act

The update on the horrific story of a mother and three children being found dead in their home at Tullarmarine. As usual, the first suspect was the father, to the extent that he was HANDCUFFED and surrounded by SIX POLICE OFFICERS. Just imagine how he felt after discovering his wife, and his three children dead,

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Queensland judge sets precedent, allowing Mum to consent to child’s transgender treatment

A Queensland judge has made an urgent and important precedent-setting decision for a child who wants to stop developing as a boy and live life as a girl. Kay DibbenCourt reporter January 15, 2021 – 12:00AM The Courier-Mail Ellen Page is transgender and will now go by the name Elliot Page, he announced on social

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‘Beautiful, protective’ mum and three kids found dead

                  The Perinovic family: Tomislav, 48, Matthew, 3, Claire, 7, Anna, 5, and devoted mother Katie, 42               AARON FRANCIS Police at Tullamarine in Melbourne’s northwest A woman and three children aged three, five and seven have been found dead inside

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