Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Rebuttable presumption [Part 1]
Other Titles:	DVAR: Domestic violence, action and resources
Authors:	Busch, Ruth
Keywords:	Risk assessment;Child protection;Family law
Year:	2001
Publisher:	Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
Citation:	(12), December 2001
Notes:	Journal of the DVRC Inc. Provides the first instalment to a two-part transcript of an interview with Ruth Busch, a law lecturer at Waikato University, New Zealand and recognised advocate for reform to judicial approaches to domestic violence. Ruth discusses the New Zealand experience of domestic violence and the gradual recognition, by government, legal and welfare agencies, of its impact on children, reciting the results of various research projects which have supported this recognition. She highlights some of the differences between the New Zealand and Australian approach to contact and residency, in particular the introduction of mandatory risk assessment in custody hearings and outlines some of the effects these legislative changes have had for women and children. She then comments on some of the statistical and legal trends emerging in Australia, specifically the development of a ‘woman blaming’ culture amongst child protection agencies. The interview is continued in the following issue.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16510
ISSN:	1329-900X
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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