Putting Safety First
“Investigating the interaction of family law and domestic violence and child protection laws and practices and implications for the safety and well-being of women and children”
On the 4th December 2009 the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity, hosted a forum to consider issues currently being investigated by the Australian Law Reform Commission and the NSW Law Reform Commission, following recommendations from Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children.
Powerpoint presentations from the speakers are now available below:
- Professor Rosalind Croucher - Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission
The family violence inquiry – the ALRC/NSWLRC brief
- Rachael Field - Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at QUT
Preparing victims of family violence for participation in family dispute
resolution
- Amanda Lee-Ross - Manager, Cairns Regional Domestic Violence Service
Wading through molasses: the unintended outcomes of a non-systemic
approach to family law, child protection and domestic violence legislation
- Zoe Rathus - Senior lecturer in law at Griffith University
Sharing the caring or caring about the sharing: what’s wrong with the Family
Law Act?
