child family violence survivors on how court silenced and retraumatised them
- Written by Camilla Nelson, EG Whitlam Research Fellow, Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, and Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
ShutterstockNobody spoke to Donna* or her sister in the lead up to the family court decision that ordered the children to spend time alone with their father, who was violent. Donna was eight.
Later, after the children told the court’s Independent Children’s Lawyer their father had been “drinking a lot” when he was with them...
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