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Workshop 5 Improving Access to The Courts For Indigenous Australians: Why and How?
Room: Balcony 1/2 Judge Charlotte Kelly 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Federal Circuit of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Ms Robyn Sexton
Former judge of Federal Circuit Court of Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
Ms Melissa Clarke
Acting CEO, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, Adelaide, South Australia
Ms Jean Walla
Counsellor/Support Worker, Nunkuwarrin Yunti, Elizabeth, South Australia
Mr Alec Wanganeen
Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner Family Relationship Centre, Christies Beach, South Australia
Mr Trent Shepherd
Policy Of cer Federal Circuit Court of Australia. Sydney, New South Wales
Chair: Justice Steven Strickland
With the numbers of indigenous children being placed in out of home care increasing all the time, this session is an interactive panel discussion around why, how and what special measures and pathways in the family law system are needed to help indigenous people keep children in families and their communities.
Workshop 6 A “little bit” of Family Violence? Dr Peter Krabman
Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist, Sydney, New South Wales
Chair: Judge Alex Harland
Room: Ballroom B 3.30 pm – 5.00 pm
When might it be in the best interests of the children to spend time with a parent, even though that parent has been the perpetrator of family violence?
How does one appraise parenting capacity and risk (including risk of ongoing or recurrent family violence), and how does one consider options for parenting arrangements, in settings where the perpetrator appears to have strengths as a parent, and the victim appears to have vulnerabilities?
Can the security and wellbeing of the victim be protected in settings where the children are to spend ongoing time with the perpetrator, and if so, how?
10. 5th Annual AFCC AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE 2018