Now The Family Court is going after the women's refuges

The Family Law has gone beyond the violating human rights of women and children - they may as well be the ones with the guns in their hands. This is NOW not only a crucial time to be writing to your politicians, but to the united nations before we have another genocide. Naming the refuges, means that any perpetrator with access to weapons can walze up to a refuge and eliminate the entire facility. The Family Courts consistent tyranny against women, women's shelters and forty years worth of research is enough to establish who is giving the directions to these angry mens groups. I have had it on good authority that the mens movements are internal to the family court and part of the evidence is within the mapping of Dr Michael's Floods work on this subject. Evidence has amounted in many places, but obviously becoming less of a requirement due to this factor becoming highly visible to the public anyway. Case by case, women and children have been ignored on their safety concerns and deaths have been largely ignored and contained from public view. The views of the court may be dressed in a variance of use of language, but the beliefs, motives and culture is parallel. The determination to diminish acknowledgement of a connection between family courts and family violence is the courts top priority. The article below is just one example. Remember, the women who died earlier this year was released to the public as this is part of UK law - not australian and the statistics the court released can be obscured to meet their purpose of minimizing this genocide.

Court puts women in danger

Threatened ... the woman, who cannot be identified, is being forced to reveal the name of the women's refuge. Photo: Janie Barrett

Leesha McKenny

July 12, 2009

A WOMEN'S refuge was forced to change its name after its identity was revealed during a child custody case before the Federal Magistrates Court last week.

The organisation running the refuge said it feared for the safety of its residents after the location of its head office became known, through court documents, to the father trying to win custody of his two children.

The court is now deliberating whether to compel the mother to disclose the address of the Sydney refuge as the potential pick-up point for the children. He had previously picked up the children at a local shopping centre.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she sought refuge after her children were exposed to sexual abuse through her ex-partner's family. He had also made threats to her safety.

If she is forced to reveal the refuge's location, refuge manager Christine Bird said the mother and the two children would be required to leave for breaching an agreement not to disclose the address.

Ms Bird said two other families at the location, identified by police as homicide risks because their ex-partners had access to firearms, would be exposed to danger. "As sympathetic as I am to her situation . . . I've got to think about the other women, which the court doesn't."

The woman said she was forced to move between temporary accommodation five times in three months before the Department of Community Services referred her to the refuge a year ago.

Ms Bird said the court did not consult the refuge before including its details in a court order given to the woman's ex-partner last week. "They're making decisions that affect our organisation, our residents, our program without us having any representation or involvement," she said.

Dr Elspeth McInnes, a researcher in family law at the University of South Australia, said there was a lack of co-ordination between state and federal systems, with the Family Law Act placing its emphasis on the right of parental access ahead of safety.

"I don't think it's in the Family Law Act that they have to consider the safety of parties who are not party to proceedings, and will put it down to the mother's responsibility to find an appropriate home for the child," she said.

A spokesman for federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland said that a review of the Family Law Act's shared parental responsibility provisions would be delivered to the Government in December.

Cat Gander, chief executive of the NSW Women's Refuge Movement Resource Centre, said a key cause of homelessness in Australia was domestic violence.

"A woman doesn't stay in a refuge for the fun of it," she said. "And I'm outraged that the family law system these days facilitates contact [with children] over safety."