House debates Bills

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2019, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019; Second Reading

Monday, 30 November 2020 House of Representatives

Susan Templeman

Susan Templeman Macquarie, Australian Labor Party

1:29 pm

I'm pleased to follow the member for Fisher, who seems not to be able to recognise the extraordinary change that the Whitlam government made when it brought in the Family Law Act. He may not know that, prior to that legislation, there was no no-fault divorce. Not only did one partner or the other have to take the blame for the failure of the marriage—and, as the Prime Minister at the time said, it only takes one partner in a marriage for a marriage to fail—but photographers were storming into people's bedrooms to catch them in compromising situations. So there is nothing inconsistent in the shadow Attorney-General saying that this legislation has served us well and that, currently, it is broken. This legislation by the Morrison government will not fix that.

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