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- Title
Fault, Gender Politics and Family Law Reform.
- Authors
Swain, Shurlee; Thornton, Danielle
- Abstract
Recent public debates about family law reform have revealed both support for and criticism of legislative policies that seek to shape social norms. Amidst this debate was a suggestion from some quarters that the Whitlam Government's removal of fault-based divorce is responsible for the gendered tensions that characterise modern reform debates. This article draws on archival records and interviews conducted with family law professionals who worked in the system in the 1970s and experienced the transition to the no-fault system, to explore the principles underlying the introduction of the Family Law Act of 1975 and to identify the sources of continuing dissension about its impact.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; HISTORY of divorce law; NO-fault divorce; DOMESTIC relations; 20TH century Australian history; AUSTRALIAN politics &; government, 1945-
- Publication
Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2011, Vol 57, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
0004-9522
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8497.2011.01592.x