06.04.2018
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Submissions to Discussion Paper (DP86)
256. 
Attorney-General’s Department (PDF)
257. Global Mobility Immigration Lawyers and Migration Agents (PDF)
258. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Australian Chapter (PDF)
259. Drummond Street Services (PDF)
260. Resolution Institute (PDF)
261. J Howieson, R Carroll, S Murray, I Murray, L Young, L Jarvis, D Hansen and F Lester (PDF)
263. Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PDF)
264. Rainbow Families Victoria (PDF)
265. Australian Children’s Contact Service Association (PDF)
266. Dr D Tustin (PDF)
267. Relationships Australia Victoria (PDF)
268. Uniting (PDF)
269. Family Law Pathways Network Greater Melbourne (PDF)
270. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (PDF)
271. Megan Mitchell, National Children’s Commissioner (PDF)
272. Economic Abuse Reference Group (PDF)
273. Greater Brisbane Family Law Pathways Network (PDF)
274. Speech Pathology Australia (PDF)
275. Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia (PDF)
276. Legal Profession Board of Tasmania (PDF)
277. Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner (PDF)
278. ANROWS (PDF)
279. Bravehearts (PDF)
280. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (PDF)
281. Australian Psychological Society (PDF)
282. Dr M Livermore (PDF)
283. Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (PDF)
284. Domestic Violence Victoria (PDF)
285. Law Council of Australia (PDF)
286. Women’s Legal Service Qld (PDF)
287. Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (PDF)
288. Marrickville Legal Centre (PDF)
289. Prof R Carroll (PDF)
290. NATSILS (PDF)
291. Anglicare Australia (PDF)
292. Caxton Legal Centre (PDF)
293. National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (PDF)
294. Hume Riverina Community Legal Service (PDF)
295. Australian Association of Social Workers (PDF)
296. M Kaye (PDF)
297. National Legal Aid (PDF)
298. Z Rathus (PDF)
299. 
Grant Bowen (Word)
300. Lucy Thethewey (Word)
301. Roland Bow (PDF)
302. William Fleming (PDF)
303. Child Support Australia (Word)
304. K Payne (Word)
305. Dr David Thorp (Word)
306. Megan Loukes (Word)
307. Partnerships Victoria (PDF)
308. Hon Mary Finn (Word)
309. Family Life (PDF)
310. Mallee Family Care (PDF)
311. Family Court of Western Australia (PDF)
312. UnitingCare Queensland (PDF)
313. NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (PDF)
314. Liberal Democratic Party (PDF)
315. CatholicCare Sydney (Word)
316. Surrogacy Australia (Word)
317. Relationships Australia National (PDF)
318. Crystal Peterson (PDF)
319. Belinda Fehlberg (Word)
320. Donna Cooper (Word)
321. Alastair Lawrie (PDF)
322. Brimbank Melton Community Legal Centre (PDF)
323. National LGBTI Health Alliance (Word)
324. NSW Legal Services Commissioner (PDF)
325. Jacqueline Campbell (PDF)
326. Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals (PDF)
327. Dr Michelle Fernando and Dr Nicola Ross (Word)
328. Victorian Association of Collaborative Professionals (PDF)
329. John Drake (PDF)
330. Michael Packer (PDF)
331. Helen Couzner (PDF)
332. Swaab (PDF)
333. Victorian Judicial Advisory Group in Family Violence (PDF)
334. Central Coast Family Law Pathways Network (PDF)
335. Emily Schindeler (Word)
336. Fitzroy Legal Service and Darebin Community Legal Service (PDF)
337. MELCA (PDF)
338. Portable (PDF)
339. Mediator Standards Board (PDF)
340. Women’s Legal Service NSW (PDF)
341. Patrick Parkinson (PDF)
342. Justine Sturgiss (Word)
343. Jason Kirkpatrick (Word)
344. Megan Morris and Kim Halford (PDF)
345. James Reid (PDF)
346. Macarthur Legal Centre (PDF)
347. Ruth Hainsworth (PDF)
348. Christopher Turnbull (PDF)
349. Andrew Lancaster (PDF)
350. Aldrin Mendonca (Word)
351. Adam Peaty (PDF)
352. Lesley Laing, Cathy Humphreys, Susan Heward-Belle and Georgia Ovenden (Word)
353. Sherika Ponniah and Meera Klemola (PDF)
354. Dr L Steele (PDF)
355. Family Law Reform Coalition (PDF)
356. Luke Hoskin (PDF)
357. Lander & Rogers Lawyers (PDF)
358. Richard Russell (PDF)
359. Baptist Care Australia (PDF)
360. SA Commissioner for Children and Young People (PDF)
361. Elizabeth Pinna (PDF)
362. Family Inclusion Network Qld Townsville Inc (Word)
363. Domestic Violence NSW (PDF)
364. Rainbow Families NSW (Word)
365. Rami Singer (Word)
366. Women’s Legal Services Australia (PDF)
367. LGBTI Legal Service (PDF)
368. Family Law Practitioners Association Qld (PDF)
369. Don Huggins (PDF)
370. Townsville Community Legal Service Inc (PDF)
371. Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (PDF)
372. Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre Inc (PDF)
373. NSW Bar Association (PDF)
374. Nick Hansen (PDF)
375. Victoria Legal Aid (Word)
376. HESTA (PDF)
377. Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board (PDF)
378. Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) (PDF)
379. Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) (PDF)
380. Aboriginal Legal Service (NSWACT) (PDF)
381. Aboriginal Justice Caucus Working Group on Family Violence (PDF)
382. Inner City Legal Centre (PDF)
383. Domestic Violence Prevention Centre, Gold Coast Inc (Word)
384. ATSILS (Qld) (PDF)
385. Community Legal Centres NSW (PDF)
386. Australian Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (ADRAC) (PDF)
387. Law Institute of Victoria (PDF)
388. Yourtown (PDF)
389. Interact Support Inc (PDF)
390. Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity (PDF)
391. Commissioner for Children and Young People WA (PDF)
392. JFA Purple Orange (PDF)
393. Fighters Against Child Abuse Australia (F.A.C.A.A.) (PDF)
394. Patricia Easteal and Lisa Young (PDF)
395. Susan De Campo and Ameila De Campo (PDF)
396. Australian Institute of Family Studies (PDF)
397. Neil Jackson (Word)
398. No to Violence (PDF)
399. Advocacy for Inclusion (PDF)
400. Family Court of Australia (PDF)
401. Hon Jenny Mikakos, Minister for Families and Children (PDF)
402. Women with Disabilities Victoria (Word)
403. Z Rathus, H Menih, S Jeffries, R Field (Word)
404. CASA Forum Victorian Centres Against Sexual Assault (PDF)
405. Office of the Public Advocate VIC (PDF)
406. Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) (PDF)
407. Family and Relationship Services Australia (PDF)
408. Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre (PDF)
409. People with Disability Australia (Word)
410. Family Law Practitioners’ Association of Western Australia (Inc) (PDF)
411. Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (PDF)
412. Gadens (PDF)
413. Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Word)
414. Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (PDF)
415. Family Law Practitioners’ Association of Tasmania (PDF)
416. Interrelate Limited (Word)
417. Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (PDF)
418. Intersex Human Rights Australia (PDF)
419. Magistrates Court of Victoria and Children’s Court of Victoria (PDF)
421. For Kids Sake (PDF)
422. Julia Meyerowitz-Katz (PDF)
424. CatholicCare (Word)
425. Better Place (PDF)
426. Uniting Communities (PDF)
Submissions to Issues Paper (IP48)
1. TASC National (PDF)
2. Anglicare SA (Word)
3. Far North Coast Family Law Practitioners Association (FNCFLPA) (PDF)
4. Churches of Christ Care (PDF)
5. Youth Affairs Council of South Australia (PDF)
6. P Theobald (Word)
7. Fitzroy Legal Service and Darebin Community Legal Centre (PDF)
8. Western Sydney CLC (Word)
9. Family Life (PDF)
10. People with Disability Australia (PWDA) (Word)
11. Relationships Australia (PDF)
12. Australian Dispute Resolution Advisory Council Inc (ADRAC) (PDF)
13. Australia Bar Association (PDF)
14. National LGBTI Health Alliance (PDF)
15. Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre (PDF)
16. Queensland Family and Child Commission (PDF)
17. Albury Wodonga Family Law Pathways Network (PDF)
18. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (PDF)
19. R Stanfield (Word)
20. Drummond Street Services (PDF)
21. V Sinclair (Word)
22. A Tate (Word)
23. Domestic Violence Victoria (PDF)
24. Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) (PDF)
25. Australian Association of Social Workers (PDF)
26. Berry Street (PDF)
27. Family Law Practitioners Association WA (Word)
28. Setting the Record Straight for the Rights of the Child (Word)
30. Peninsula Community Legal Centre (PDF)
31. Australasian Centre for Human Rights and Health (PDF)
32. No to Violence (Word)
33. Domestic Violence Legal Workers’ Network of WA (PDF)
34. Community Legal Centres NSW (PDF)
35. D Bryant (Word)
36. Mallee Family Care (Word)
37. Office of the Public Advocate (PDF)
38. Migrant Women’s Lobby Group of SA (PDF)
39. Professor B Fehlberg, L Sarmas and Professor J Morgan (Word)
40. Women’s Law Centre of WA (Word)
41. Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (PDF)
42. ATSILS Qld (PDF)
43. Law Council of Australia (PDF)
44. Domestic Violence NSW (PDF)
45. Women’s Legal Services Australia (PDF)
46. T Murdock, Dispute Management Australia (PDF)
47. R Honey, Murdoch University (Word)
48. Dr C Turnbull (Word)
49. Court Network (PDF)
50. Koori Caucus Working Group on Family Violence (Word)
51. Caxton Legal Centre (PDF)
52. M Wood (Word)
53. Family & Relationship Services Australia (PDF)
54. Human Rights Law Centre (PDF)
55. Australian Psychological Society (PDF)
56. P Curry (Word)
57. Women Lawyers of Western Australia (PDF)
58. Domestic Violence Action Centre (Word)
59. Family Relationship Centre Port Augusta (Word)
60. F Kelly (Word)
61. Victoria Legal Aid (Word)
62. Relationships Australia South Australia (PDF)
63. National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Forum (PDF)
64. Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (PDF)
65. Federation of Community Legal Centres (Victoria) (PDF)
66. R Davies (Word)
67. C Cassidy (Word)
68. Family Court of Australia (PDF)
69. Family Law Practitioners Association of Tasmania (PDF)
70. Resolution Institute (Word)
71. M Westby (Word)
72. PeakCare Queensland Inc (PDF)
73. Access Community Services Ltd (PDF)
74. A Weller (Word)
75. T Quinn (Word)
76. Brimbank Melton Community Legal Centre (PDF)
77. Dr B Batagol (Word)
78. Family Inclusion Network Queensland (Townsville) (Word)
79. CatholicCare Sydney (Word)
80. Bar Association of Queensland (PDF)
81. Hunter Community Legal Centre (PDF)
82. The Humanitarian Group (PDF)
83. Mediator Standards Board (Word)
84. Victorian Women Lawyers (PDF)
85. Seniors Rights Service (Word)
86. The Benevolent Society (PDF)
87. Public Advocate & Children and Young People Commissioner, ACT Human Rights Commission (PDF)
88. Law Society of South Australia (PDF)
89. Liberty Victoria, Rights Advocacy Project (PDF)
90. Advocacy for Inclusion (Word)
91. Victorian Association of Collaborative Professionals (PDF)
92. Z Rathus (PDF)
93. ASD Family Legal (PDF)
94. D Plummer (Word)
95. NSW Bar Association (Word)
96. Families for Children’s Rights: The Australian Movement (Word)
97. I Vann (Word)
98. J Szyndler (Word)
99. Lone Fathers Association of Australia (Word)
100. Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Word)
101. Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (PDF)
102. Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (PDF)
103. P Law (Word)
104. Associate Professor B Smyth (PDF)
105. Women’s Rights Group, Monash Law Student Society Just Leadership Program (PDF)
106. Rainbow Families Victoria (PDF)
107. Interact Support Inc (Word)
108. NSW Young Lawyers Family Law Committee, Law Society of NSW (PDF)
109. Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University (PDF)
110. M Job and H Meagher (PDF)
111. E Schindeler (PDF)
112. R Watton (PDF)
113. National Judicial College of Australia (PDF)
114. Relationships Australia Northern Territory (PDF)
115. CatholicCare Victoria Tasmania (CCVT) (PDF)
116. Djirra Letter (PDF)
117. S Fitzroy-Mendis (PDF)
118. For kids Sake (PDF)
119. D Redford (PDF)
120. Unchain my heart and National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (PDF)
121. South Australian Bar Association (PDF)
122. Joint NATSIWA_Harmony_AWAVA (PDF)
123. L Bowen (PDF)
124. Inner City Legal Centre (PDF)
125, Centacare Family Relationship Services (Word)
126. Interrelate (PDF)
127. O Hirsig (PDF)
128. YFoundations (PDF)
129. Relationships Australia Victoria (PDF)
130. Hume Riverina Community Legal Service (PDF)
131. R Alexander (PDF)
132. R Chisholm (PDF)
133. R Saladino (PDF)
134. White Ribbon Australia (PDF)
135. FMC Mediation and Counselling (PDF)
136. CPSU (PDF)
137. Marrickville Legal Centre (PDF)
138. Grandparents Victoria (PDF)
139. Parenting Coordination Australia (PDF)
140. Farrar Gesini Dunn (PDF)
141. Gowland Legal (PDF)
142. R Hainsworth (PDF)
143. Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland (PDF)
144. Australian Association of Collaborative Professionals (PDF)
145. J Webb (PDF)
146. Relationships Australia Qld and Culshaw Miller Lawyers (PDF)
147. The Parenting Centre (PDF)
148. Bravehearts Foundation Ltd (PDF)
149. ODRI (PDF)
150. Queensland Council of Social Service (PDF)
151. S Thompson (PDF)
152. Anglicare WA (PDF)
153. Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Services NSW (PDF)
154. Law Society of NSW (PDF)
155. MELCA (PDF)
156. ANROWS (PDF)
157. NATSILS (PDF)
158. Women’s Legal Service Queensland (PDF)
159. Townsville Community Legal Service (PDF)
160. Collaborative Practice Canberra (PDF)
161. Springvale Monash Legal Service (PDF)
162. Uniting (PDF)
163. National Legal Aid (PDF)
164. Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre (PDF)
165. D Cooper (PDF)
166. Research team Z Rathus AM, Dr S Jeffries, Dr H Menih, Professor R Field (PDF)
167. Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (PDF)
168. N Ciffolilli (PDF)
169. C Fitzpatrick, E Hooper, C Hooper and J Dmitrovic (PDF)
170. Queensland Association of Collaborative Practitioners (PDF)
171. AC.CARE (PDF)
172. Dr M Fernando (PDF)
173. H Robert (PDF)
174. R Kerr (PDF)
175. D Loveday (PDF)
176. Professor M Keyes (PDF)
177. Chidambara Raj C.B. (PDF)
178. M Packer (PDF)
179. J Wangmann, T Booth and M Kaye of UTS Faculty of Law (PDF)
180. Feminist Legal Clinic (PDF)
181. Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service (PDF)
182. Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA (PDF)
183. U Chowdhury, A Rimovetz, E Post and S Davis (PDF)
184. M Brandon (PDF)
185. R Chen (PDF)
186. Dr C May (PDF)
187. R Grayson (PDF)
188. R Tilbrook (PDF)
189. Intersex Human Rights Australia (PDF)
190. ANU Law Reform and Social Justice (PDF)
191. Dr S Meyer (PDF)
192. M Thorley (PDF)
193. ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council (PDF)
194. Sex Workers Outreach Project (PDF)
195. R Singh (PDF)
196. A Kennedy (PDF)
197. CatholicCare Diocese of Broken Bay (PDF)
198. Lander & Rogers (PDF)
199. R Khosa (PDF)
200. Toowoomba and South West Queensland Family Law Pathways Network (PDF)
201. Collaborative Professionals (NSW) Inc (PDF)
202. National Council of Women of Australia (NCWA) (PDF)
203. Dr A Gearing (PDF)
204. Yourtown (PDF)
205. Think Law Group Pty Ltd (PDF)
206. Australian Institute of Family Studies AIFS (PDF)
207. Australian Children’s Contact Service Association (PDF)
208. Rainbow Territory (PDF)
209. P Bachmann (PDF)
210. Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW and ACT) (PDF)
211. Dr L Steele (PDF)
212. Rainbow Families NSW (PDF)
213. Women’s Legal Service Victoria (PDF)
214. St Kilda Legal Services (PDF)
215. M Kaye (PDF)
216. S Christie (PDF)
217. Australian Human Rights Commission (PDF)
218. Women’s Legal Service NSW (PDF)
219. Outer West Domestic Violence Network (PDF)
220. M Paul (PDF)
221. Queensland Law Society (PDF)
222. Moores and MELCA (PDF)
223. C Williams (PDF)
224. M Jackson (PDF)
225. H Burgess (PDF)
226. J Zeleznikow (PDF)
227. K Fitzpatrick (PDF)
228. Australian Paralegal Foundation (PDF)
229. Surrogacy Australia (PDF)
230. Justice for Children Australia (PDF)
231. Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Foundation (PDF)
232. Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Australian Chapter (PDF)
233. Dr D Tustin (PDF)
234. P Easteal (PDF)
235. Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre and Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre (PDF)
236. The National Council of Single Mothers and Their Children (PDF)
237. M Derry (Word)
238. S Mison-Popow (Word)
239. Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (PDF)
240. L Hudson (PDF)