Appendix 1

Submissions, tabled documents and answers to questions on notice

Submissions

1
Bar Association of Queensland
2
Australian Women Against Violence Alliance
3
Relationships Australia
3.1 Supplementary to submission 3
4
Prof. Patrick Parkinson
5
Queensland Law Society
6
Community and Public Sector Union
7
Victorian Women Lawyers
8
Law Council of Australia
8.1 Supplementary to submission 8
9
Community Legal Centres Australia
10
New South Wales Bar Association
11
Family Law Practitioners Association Queensland
12
Women's Legal Services Australia
12.1 Supplementary to submission 12
13
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
14
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
15
Australian Dispute Resolution Advisory Council
16
Confidential
17
Law Institute of Victoria
18
Attorney General's Department
19
Mr Gordon Harris
20
Child Protection Party
21
Mr Cliff Wong
22
Confidential

Answer to Question on Notice

1
Attorney-General’s Department, responses to questions on notice, 6 November 2020 (received 13 November 2020)
2
Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia, responses to questions on notice, 6 November 2020 (received 13 November 2020)
3
Attorney-General’s Department, responses to questions on notice, 6 November 2020 (received 16 November 2020)
4
Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia, responses to written questions on notice, 16 November 2020 (received 18 November 2020)

Tabled Documents

1
Opening statement from Professor Patrick Parkinson, received 9 October 2020.
2
Opening statement from Professor Relationships Australia, received 9 October 2020.
3
Opening statement from Community Legal Centres Australia, received 9 October 2020.
4
Opening statement from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, received 9 October 2020.
5
Opening statement from the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance, received 9 October 2020.
6
Opening statement from Women’s Legal Services Australia, received 9 October 2020.

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About this inquiry

The bills would bring the Federal Circuit Court of Australia and the Family Court of Australia together into an overarching, unified administrative structure to be known as the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, and make consequential amendments.



Past Public Hearings

06 Nov 2020: Canberra
09 Oct 2020: Canberra