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[Meepy]

First dog nails it https://www.theguard...s-support-group

[MarigoldMadge]

This is an interesting perspective - that this path the government has taken is not just to appease Hanson, but to bury two previous reviews that would sent. conservative male voters off

https://www.theguard...revious-reviews

But on close reading of those two inquiries – one from the House of Representatives, the other from the Australian Law Reform Commission – I see I was wrong. This new inquiry is not just cynical horse-trading. It is, I believe, a deliberate move by the government to bury the findings of the two inquiries it commissioned.

Both inquiries recommended sweeping changes that would put children’s safety – instead of parents’ rights – back at the centre of our family law system.

One reform, recommended by both inquiries, is so incendiary it’s provoked warnings of reigniting “the gender wars”. It is that the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility – and the mandate for judges to consider the option of shared care – should be abolished, because the evidence shows it is putting children at risk.

[purplekitty]

Absolutely.