Terminator wrote:
they would be in bed with the crown
I agree about the money situation. I've also heard of quantities of drugs go missing by hearing time.
By crown do you mean the federal courts.
Don't count the feds out entirely although they enjoy their little bits of fun in family courts they also see things as they are with the state government agencies.
The child protection act is a federal act and the state government agencies have been seen and proven to butcher it in every way possible.
The federal courts and organisations are sick to the stomach of the states power over Australians and these stae agencies willingness to thumb it's nose at the civil rights included within child protection act.
Due to this The family court system has been know to overturn DoCS hold over children in a heart beat. You realise why DoCS try to slow proceeding down to a crawl in the magistrates courts and stop appeals getting higher up. The two legislatures are in a type of unspoken cold war. Both children and parents are the victims in this bureaucratic battle and the federal courts are even aware of this.
The reason the federal government and the state government are so separated, is that some time ago, upon the when the states became united under the one national flag, the states acted like a little child that threatened to chuck tantrums and divide the nation upon any interference the federal legislature had upon the people, deeming it to be a totalitarian model that risked the liberty of the people. In hind sight this is ironic as the little child has grown greedy and deluded upon it absolute power and has become what it hates. The federal government has a long way to come back and it is now concentrating on civil liberties when it has to deal with state agencies.
You can only trust balance in politics and not absolute power, so even the federal government needs to be in check. However letting the feds have a little room to move wont hurt our current situation.