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
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 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 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
New South Wales police exposed a $1.3 billion scheme for making fraudulent child sexual abuse claims. Here’s solid evidence that false rape claims are absolutely rampant, particularly when it comes to raking in money from our shockingly slack victims’ compensation schemes.
Bettina Arndt
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