Magistrate Anne Goldsbrough, LLB
Part-time Commissioner
Magistrate Anne Goldsbrough was appointed a part-time Commissioner in December 2009 to assist the ALRC in its current Inquiry into Family Violence, which is due to report to the Attorney-General on 31 July 2010. Ms Goldsbrough’s appointment is until 31 August 2010.
Magistrate Goldsbrough was the Victorian State Supervising Magistrate for Family Violence and Family Law for 6 years from February 2002 until December 2007 and during that period sat daily in the Specialist Family Violence list.
Ms Goldsbrough has been a leader in the area of Family Violence and Family Law since her appointment as a magistrate in 1996. Prior to this appointment, she was a registrar at the Family Court in Melbourne and had an extensive family law practice. During her terms as Supervising Magistrate, Ms Goldsbrough was instrumental in the development and implementation of a range of specialist Family Violence initiatives and practice improvements in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria. This included the Family Violence Court Division of the Magistrates’ Court project in Heidelberg and Ballarat, and the Specialist Family Violence services project at three additional magistrates’ courts in Victoria.
Ms Goldsbrough is presently a member of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Steering committee on the intersection between law, religion and human rights (2008-2009). She has been chair of a number of key committees in areas significant to Family Violence, provided regular judicial and legal education about family violence laws and was a member of the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s Advisory Committee in relation to its landmark report, Review of Family Violence Laws (2006).