As the number of signatures for this petition passed 7500 only a year after it was put on line, Australian Attorney General, well aware of the atrocities of Family Courts against children, their parents and families has called for its overhaul and a merger with other Courts. (Other Courts, quite justifiably, are objecting to this merger, fearing their prestige and credibility will be tainted by merging with Family Courts) Although this is a positive move to scarp Courts that have caused so much pain and destruction, .... The Attorney General of Australia must make Family Courts and their operators at all levels accountable (Via a Royal Commission) for their crimes against children and their parents. Where criminal acts have occurred, perpetrators must be punished with the full force of the law. This is only done to avoid investigation of the horrifying abuse of power and public trust in an evil industry devoid of ethics, compassion, truth or justice with ridiculous "laws" to protect judges, lawyers and report writers. An unreserved apology must be made by the Office of the Attorney General and the Australian Government to the victims of Family Courts. Adequate monetary compensation must be made to the child and parent victims of Family Courts. For those who took their own lives, as a consequence of Judgments of the Family Courts, a monument must be commissioned in front of every Family Court building in Australia. The Families of those who took their own lives must compensated by Australian Government. Those who suffered physically, psychologically and financially must be apologised to and adequately compensated. Australian Government must pledge and promise the Australian public to never again let such inhumane abuse of power, injustice, human rights and children' rights violations go unchecked and unpunished. It must take a pledge to never again silence the voices of outrage and pleas of help from the most devastated victims of fraud and corruption. Sign this petition! Below is the article in Australian Business Review published 23 October 2017. ‘Radical’ overhaul of commonwealth courts imminent The Australian - October 23, 2017 - NICOLA BERKOVIC Legal affairs correspondentSydney @NicBerko “Radical” changes to the commonwealth law courts, in which the Family Court may be scrapped and folded into the Federal Court, could be implemented as soon as Christmas. The Australian understands the heads of the three federal courts will meet in the next two weeks to discuss structural changes to improve their efficiency. Attorney-General George Brandis told the courts on Friday the system was “capable of improvement” to ensure families could access “swifter, less expensive justice”. “The government is open to change, if need be, radical change,” he said at the swearing- in of Family Court Chief Justice John Pascoe and Federal Circuit Court Chief Judge Will Alstergren in Sydney. “Now is the window of opportunity for those improvements to be made and implemented.” Moves to restructure the courts comes amid a 40 per cent rise in migration cases in the past year, prompting warnings about a blowout in waiting times for litigants. Family law litigants are waiting as long as three years for their disputes to be resolved. Chief Justice Pascoe, who until Friday was head of the lower-level Federal Circuit Court, said there was now an 18-month delay in listing migration cases for final hearing and this could worsen as several judges were set to retire. “This is of great concern,” he says in the Federal Circuit Court’s annual report. “It cannot be overstated that the court’s capacity to efficiently and effectively deal with its workload is directly impacted by the availability of adequate judicial resources.” Recently retired Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant said her court was short three judges. In the court’s annual report, she said the delay in replacing judges affected the court’s capacity “to get through its workload” and led to “longer waiting times”. In his speech on Friday, Senator Brandis said he had an “entirely open mind” on changes to the courts’ structure and would be guided by the heads of jurisdiction. Options to improve efficiency include folding the Family Court and Federal Circuit Court into the Federal Court or installing a chief judge to oversee all three courts. It is understood Federal Court judges are not in favour of merging with the Family Court because they fear it would damage the prestige of their court. At his swearing-in on Friday, Chief Judge Alstergren said he was “acutely aware” of the challenges facing the Federal Circuit Court, which handles 90 per cent of family law disputes. He promised initiatives in the coming weeks to tackle delays. The Community and Public Sector Union’s Nadine Flood said staff at the federal courts went on strike for a half day on Friday for the first time in their history because they were “very worried” about job security. More than 10 per cent of jobs had been cut in the past year and the courts were proposing many more would go. Staff were “particularly shocked” Federal Court management had refused the assistance of the Fair Work Commission to conciliate the dispute, which was “at odds” with the court’s expectation of litigants to engage in mediation and conciliation. Law Council of Australia president Fiona McLeod SC urged the government to appoint new judges to the Family Court “immediately”.