Eva Solberg is a Swedish politician, a proud feminist who holds an important post as chairwoman of the party Moderate Women. Last year she was presented with her government’s latest strategy for combating domestic violence. Like similar reports across the…
New domestic violence short film should be used as training tool, family law expert says
An Australian-made short film on domestic violence as seen through the eyes of two victims could become a tool in helping judges deal with family violence in the courts. The film Degrees of Separation was aired for the first time…
Australian Family Court allows 15-year-old girl to have breasts removed as part of gender reassignment journey
Governments and courts have made it relatively easier for people with gender dysphoria condition to change sex such as the funding by the National Health Services (NHS) of Britain of fertility treatmentsfor transgender men who retained their female reproductive system…
Family law experts dismiss Pauline Hanson’s call for court abolishment, but agree overhaul is needed
Family law experts have dismissed calls from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party for the Family Court to be abolished, but say an overhaul is needed. Ms Hanson has said she wants the controversial court system to be scrapped and replaced…
Queensland family left in limbo over passport debacle
Two Australian fathers living in Canada have been caught in a nightmarish situation as they try to bring their baby son home. Kyle and Kent Stewart, who are legally married in Canada, became dads to Kaden through a surrogate in Canada in October…
Hard lessons from Channel 9’s child abduction saga
Family lawyers can gain a number of valuable insights from the ‘child recovery’ attempt backed by Channel Nine in Lebanon, writes Jennifer Hetherington. From a family law perspective, the child abduction fiasco in Lebanon earlier this year continues to generate shock waves. It…
LETTER: Faulkner’s husband gets no repercussions
BRISBANE woman Sally Faulkner, custodial parent and mother of two children to a Lebanese Muslim husband, who himself illegally took the children to Lebanon, is to be charged herself by the Lebanese court system, with attempting to kidnap them off…
Rosie Batty: courts’ aim for shared custody leaves children at risk
Domestic violence campaigner says legal system ‘often fails to recognise the impact of family violence’ The domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty has said there should be no presumption of shared custody of children, arguing parents’ sense of “entitlement” to custody…
Surrogacy in Australia – a missed opportunity
Following several high-profile cases involving surrogacy – including the Baby Gammy scandal, in which a baby born through surrogacy in Thailand was falsely alleged to have been abandoned by the intended parents (seeBioNews 847) – the Australian parliament recently set…
No simple solution when families meet the law
It has often been said that when Australia’s white Anglo-Saxon founding fathers drafted the Constitution in 1901, they could not have foreseen how family constellations would change over the next century and how family law would (or would not) keep…