SOURCES

If you’d like to learn more about issues affecting Australian families, the Institute of Family Studies website (www.aifs.gov.au) includes a range of useful documents and links, including the Institute’s Evaluation of the 2006 Family Law Reforms, which is at www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fle/index.html.

Both long and short versions of the Law Reform Commission report on family violence are available at www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/family-violence.

The University of Sydney research project on the 1995 amendments to the Family Law Reform Act is Helen Rhoades et al, ‘The Family Law Reform Act: The First Three Years’, and can be downloaded from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1170057.

Michael Flood’s essay ‘Violence against women and men in Australia’ is available along with other useful articles on the subject from www.xyonline.net/content/domestic-violence-and-gender-xy-collection.

Adele Horin’s account of the vitriolic attacks on Jill Singer in 2009 can be found at www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-gentle-prod-at-inequality-prompts-a-backlash-of-bile-and-vitriol-20090918-fva0.html.

The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII) has an extensive website with information about family law judgments in both the Family Court and the Federal Magistrates Courts. All participants’ identities are concealed. They are best located through the database page at www.austlii.edu.au/databases.html.