Australian family law, the Family Law Act and the Family Court all have a lot to answer for. They have regularly and systematically treated fathers with contempt and derision, depriving them of the most basic of human rights, including the right to see their own children after the breakdown of a marriage.A devastating critique of the Family Court was penned by La Trobe University historian John Hirst in his 2005 piece entitled ‘Kangaroo Court’: Family Law in Australia (Quarterly Essay no. …
