A growing family violence system is cutting fathers off from their children, often before allegations are tested. Bettina Arndt examines the scale and consequences of state-imposed alienation.
Bettina Arndt
Coercion strips people of genuine choice, and when institutional power is used to intimidate vulnerable families, autonomy, dignity and trust can quickly disappear.
Patrick O'Connor
The ‘mental load’ is trending online as a woman’s burden. But if we only count tasks and time, we miss half the story – because someone also sets the standard, and that makes a big impact on the dynamic.
Byron and Francine Pirola
A family separated by legal battles and immigration barriers finds strength in faith, technology and love as a father remains deeply involved in his children’s lives from afar.
Jean Seah
Fathers pushed to the margins by DCJ's child protection system face a hidden mental health crisis. This piece exposes how paternal exclusion fuels preventable suicide — and demands urgent reform.
Patrick O'Connor
A personal reflection on why advocating for boys and men matters — rooted in childhood values, painful losses, and a call for women to see this not as a rivalry, but a shared cause fighting for justice and equality.
Lisa Britton
A new submission exposes the stark lack of support and advocacy for male victims of domestic and family violence, challenging Australia to confront an uncomfortable imbalance in care and compassion.
David Maywald
Behind DCJ's child protection mandate lies a system that too often criminalises innocent families through fabricated risk, bureaucratic power and a culture of impunity.
Patrick O'Connor
This article argues that systemic failures within New South Wales' child protection system have fostered a culture of coercion, weak accountability and bureaucratic overreach, with profound consequences for vulnerable families.
Patrick O'Connor
Can DCJ caseworkers avoid accountability by claiming they are “just following policies”? This article argues that discretion, legal responsibility, and ethical obligations cannot be outsourced.
Patrick O'Connor
When government agencies control the narrative, truth becomes a casualty. This analysis examines how false light operates as a structural weapon within Australia's child protection system.
Patrick O'Connor
When the state removes a child, families expect protection — not permanent silence. This investigation exposes how NSW's child protection system has become a machine for irreversible family separation.
Patrick O'Connor
When caseworkers are burned out, unsupported, and politically pressured, families pay the price. Inside the systemic failures driving erratic practice at New South Wales's child protection agency.
Patrick O'Connor
How subtle, calculated interference within child protection systems undermines families, erodes trust, and strips parents of their rights — and what must change.
Patrick O'Connor
The removal of children is not a neutral act. It is shaped by political ideology, inequality, and unchecked state power — demanding urgent scrutiny and systemic reform.
Patrick O'Connor
When a society removes children from their parents, it must confront a question that goes beyond policy, beyond procedure, beyond bureaucratic justification: What kind of country are we becoming if we allow hope itself to be taken from those who have already lost the most?
Patrick O'Connor
Truth has the power to heal and set people free. This article explores the growing issue of false allegations, their devastating consequences, and the importance of pursuing justice grounded in truth.
Nathaniel Marsh
The law must not be a passive observer of institutional harm; it must be an active guardian of justice. Malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and other tortuous wrongs must be met with civil remedies and, where appropriate, criminal sanctions.
Patrick O'Connor
Unfair advantage in legal and social systems creates profound ethical concerns, leaving vulnerable parents powerless against well-resourced institutions. Justice demands equity, transparency, and safeguards to prevent exploitation of the disadvantaged.
Patrick O'Connor
This week saw this fascinating announcement from an American advocate, Robert Garza, who is intent on fixing the family court system not only across America but in countries across the world.
Bettina Arndt
The Family Court has been the subject of dozens of government inquiries and attempts at reform on its road to becoming a cash cow for lawyers and the single most hated jurisdiction in the country.
John Stapleton
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