Advocates also warn victims could miss out on domestic violence leave if the entitlement is set up like annual or sick leave, as they are more likely to have disrupted work history.
Funding of $129 million that was pledged to women's legal centres will not be limited to specialist services, questioning at Senate estimates has revealed.
On 5 July 2018, Olga came home from work to find John had killed their teenage children.
This week, state coroner Teresa OâSullivan found that a series of critical âerrors and omissionsâ made by police, firearms registry staff and a family court lawyer in New South Wales allowed Edwards, a man with a decades-long history of domestic violence, to murder his children.
OâSullivan again raised questions about how the family law system operates, only months before it is set to undergo its most significant transformation since the family court was established in 1975.
But the Morrison governmentâs plan to establish a single point of entry to the court system â which currently shuffles cases between the federal circuit court and family court based on their complexity, often causing delays and subsequent increases in costs â will not address the family law systemâs many serious deficiencies, according to multiple people spoken to by Guardian Austral