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KANGAROO COURT IBD

QUARTERLY ESSAY
05 / 2018
9781863953412
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Sinopsis

The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. InâÇÖKangaroo CourtâÇÖ, John Hirst investigates what went wrong.This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral argument. Hirst takes us deep into the workings of the Court and the domestic apocalypses it sees every day.He explores the CourtâÇÖs fervour to uphold the best interests of the child no matter what and traces its chilling consequence- a court where malicious allegations regularly go unpunished. He notes the CourtâÇÖs enormous power over individual lives, as well as its self-proclaimed status as a âÇÖcaring courtâÇÖ, and wonders at its ability to overlook the defiance of its own authority. In closing, he considers how to reform an institution that has bred antagonism and extremism and too often entrenched paranoia and despair. Lucid and urgent,âÇÖKangaroo CourtâÇÖis a cautionary tale about the perils of high-mindedness when it comes to dealing with the breakdown of families.âÇÖWhen Family Court judges talk piously of the âÇÖcaring courtâÇÖ, I wish they could hear the roar of pain that their piety has caused.âÇÖ -John Hirst,âÇÖKangaroo CourtâÇÖThis issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 16,áBreach of Trust, from Paul Kelly, Paul Bongiorno,áMungo MacCallum, Natasha Cica, Alex Miller, andáRaimond Gaita.

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