Mr Murphy rose ...
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
John Murphy, ALP Member for Lowe
Because of how easily the courts, and the whole legal support system, was manipulated to become an instrument of abuse and extortion, I became involved in the effort to return reason and reality to this process.
This is a quote from the Australian Federal Parliament, 1 March 2006.
Unfortunately, Mr Murphey's voice was not enough. The Parliament and the Government failed the people of Australia again.
John Murphy, ALP Member for Lowe
Mr MURPHY (Lowe) (12.36 pm)-I rise this afternoon to speak on this most important bill, the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005. My electorate office has been inundated with emails and other letters from parents suffering from the effects of divorce and with the dilemma of the current legal regime founded in the Family Court of Australia and the Child Support Agency.
There is, in my view, true despair felt by those parents who are bitterly unhappy about the existing so-called 'family' and 'child support' laws and the way in which these laws are administered.
I could easily spend my 20 minutes reading from texts of some of the heart-wrenching letters that I have received from my constituents. During the debate on the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Standing Committee report on 14 September 2005, I read a letter to the Main Committee.
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I am indebted to a constituent, not of my electorate, who forwarded me a copy of the Daily Telegraph poll of 26 March 2004, which asked the question: which federal issue do you think needs the most attention in 2004?
Mr Deputy Speaker, what do you think the answer was? Was it national security? Was it unemployment or the economy? Astonishingly, overwhelmingly the winner, at 60 per cent of those polled, was child custody.
In my view, the government has not only failed miserably in this policy area but, with this bill, will ensure only the continued misery of parents, particularly fathers of children who are being systematically discriminated against by the Family Court of Australia and the Child Support Agency. Fathers are being made non-custodial parents while simultaneously having their assets ripped from their hands, and they are left legally powerless and penniless.
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Because of how easily the courts, and the whole legal support system, was manipulated to become an instrument of abuse and extortion, I became involved in the effort to return reason and reality to this process.
This is a quote from the Australian Federal Parliament, 1 March 2006.
Unfortunately, Mr Murphey's voice was not enough. The Parliament and the Government failed the people of Australia again.
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Then end of Mr Murphey's speech:
" Therefore, this bill, in my view,is impotent. Until this government wakes up to the reality that its family law is in undamental
contradiction to the natural rights of both parents to rear and educate their children as a fundamental procreative right and restores such power to both parents, this government is doing no more than wasting our time in this House today with meaningless bills such as this, which can only serve to worsen the situation for those long-suffering parents, particularly fathers, who have had to suffer the horror and shame that is our current Family 'Divorce' Court of Australia"
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