With special guests:
- Geoffrey Greene and
- Christine Cole.
First up we talk with Geoffrey Greene, who as a former head of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia, was a key player in the previous government’s reforms of family law. While DOTA was critical that the reforms did not go far enough to address the extreme bigotry and anti-father bias that saturated family law in Australia, at least there was some movement in the right direction. Unbelievably, it would appear that the present government is trying to wind things back to the dark ages when many fathers entering the court did not see their children again.
We close the show with a deeply moving and fascinating interview with Christine Cole, author of the book Babies Stolen: Mothers’ stories of their stolen babies. Bureaucrats during the past century, employed in removing children from their natural parents, claimed to be acting in the best interests of children, despite the obvious harm they were doing. There are many lessons for fathers from this history.