Labor\u2019s proposal to remove the equal shared parental responsibility provision from family law will lead to more broken families and unjust outcomes for both children and parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Labor had form in supporting an unbalanced family law and child support system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor has tried to remove this provision before, when Graham Perrett introduced family law amendments in 2020,\u201d Senator Hanson said. \u201cIt ignores the truth that both parents are equally responsible for bringing a child into the world, and therefore share equal responsibility for raising that child no matter what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor may have examined the recommendations of the family law inquiry I recommended the Coalition establish, but it doesn\u2019t appear to have looked at the evidence presented in submissions and hearings by parents who\u2019ve been through the system like I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat evidence was quite clear \u2013 the system is weighted heavily against fathers. Lawyers take advantage of this, creating a highly adversarial system which can be weaponised by vexatious or vindictive partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnder this system, step-fathers have more parental rights than actual fathers and children are treated as footballs. It\u2019s in no-one\u2019s interest \u2013 especially the child\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Hanson said that while she welcomed Labor\u2019s support for expanding and extending the Lighthouse Project, she was disappointed sensible changes to the child support system were not being considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe system needs to be made much fairer,\u201d she said. \u201cMy recommendations would have done that: assessing net rather than gross incomes; ensuring parents weren\u2019t left with annual incomes below $27,000; assessing salaries on a 38 hour week; basing child support on the number of children at the time of separation and not on additional children to other partners; assessing residential costs individually; including Family Tax Benefit in assessing incomes but excluding lump sums such as Workcover, TPI or superannuation payments; and having payments paid to a separate child support account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI will continue to advocate these measures to fix Australia\u2019s broken child support system, and continue to advocate for a fairer family law system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor\u2019s proposal to remove the equal shared parental responsibility provision from family law will lead to more broken families and unjust outcomes for both children and parents. One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Labor had form in supporting an unbalanced family law and child support system. \u201cLabor has tried to remove this provision before, … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s shake-up will lead to more broken families”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}