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“If these abominations nevertheless remain, they should have built into them democratic safeguards.”

Among these safeguards, he suggests should be the right to identify and cross-examine accusers, the right for those proven falsely accused to sue their defamers. As well, revisionists should not be victimised for seeking truth, and truth should be a defence.

Robert Stephens is a part-time single dad with a big ask. If Robert were making a midnight snack at Kirribilli House, he’d take his opener to the family law can of worms. For starters, shared parenting, looking at the issue of divorced fathers suicide, child support payment rules and unreasonable lawsuits.

Robert would like an overhaul of child support arrangements, “So that it is more likely to be child support rather than financial aid to people who don't like working and so that it relates more to the cost of raising children than to relative incomes”.

He wants, as a starting point, “Both parents to share equally in financial responsibility for their children. Variations are then based on choices the parents make".

For instance, he suggests, “One parent moving away from another parent with the impact of making shared parenting impossible alters the responsibility for child support so the parent who cannot see their kids because of the actions of the other pays lots less”.