Reports
President's Report Summer 2010-11
Sorry for the delay with this newsletter but we have been run off our feet with people’s problems, mainly denial of access and child support issues being the main problems.
The National Conference held on the 16th 17th and 18th June was a very good success. although the numbers who attended were down to a bit over the fifty mark, this was because three weeks prior to commencement date the Parliament contacted us and stated they had cancelled our right to host the conference in the Parliament main committee room, because the American President was now coming to Australia, and they required all the rooms in the Parliament. This threw us into a state of shock as we knew a lot of people were attending the conference from different States because of the fact that it was being held in the Nation’s Parliament. I contacted those I knew were registered and told them, some cancelled. The irony of it all just 4 days before the conference was due to start the American President cancelled his trip so we were given the main committee room back, and the conference went ahead.
The speakers were all great, many top politicians, the Deputy Chief Justice of the Family Court, The Deputy Secretary of the Child Support Agency, The director of Family Relationship Services, DNA QLD, Grandparents, National President Of PWP Australia, Speakers from other organisations, our Branch presidents and others.
It was really a good conference and everyone who attended stated so.
President's Report Spring 2010
Sorry for the delay with this newsletter but we have been run off our feet with people’s problems, mainly denial of access and child support issues being the main problems.The National Conference held on the 16th 17th and 18th June was a very good success. although the numbers who attended were down to a bit over the fifty mark, this was because three weeks prior to commencement date the Parliament contacted us and stated they had cancelled our right to host the conference in the Parliament main committee room, because the American President was now coming to Australia, and they required all the rooms in the Parliament. This threw us into a state of shock as we knew a lot of people were attending the conference from different States because of the fact that it was being held in the Nation’s Parliament. I contacted those I knew were registered and told them, some cancelled. The irony of it all just 4 days before the conference was due to start the American President cancelled his trip so we were given the main committee room back, and the conference went ahead.
The speakers were all great, many top politicians, the Deputy Chief Justice of the Family Court, The Deputy Secretary of the Child Support Agency, The director of Family Relationship Services, DNA QLD, Grandparents, National President Of PWP Australia, Speakers from other organisations, our Branch presidents and others.
President's Report May - June 2010
I urge you the members to attend LFAA National Conference if you possibly can on the 16th, 17th and 18th June 2010 in the Main committee room in Parliament House Canberra ACT. There is a host of Ministers and MPs as guest speakers on Family law, Child Support, Men’s Health, DNA Testing, Domestic Violence, Family Relationship Services and much more.
LFAA is still going well although I am very concerned with both our funding cuts due to the Child Support Agency Communication Project coming to an end, and with the budget cuts that will also affect many low income families, and lone parent families, the big rise in food, rent, mortgage health etc. I state this because its coming to us, from you people the members, and others from Parents Without Partners Australia which are by far the two biggest lone parent organisations in Australia, by old people who can’t afford 3 meals a day and heating to keep them warm.
President's Report March - April 2010
Welcome to 2010. Let’s hope we can achieve further and better changes to family law in Australia.
There has been a lot of debate and criticism lately over the shared responsibility laws and especially in the area of shared care of children.
This is a terrible shame and a ploy by the extreme feminists and some extreme researchers to destroy the child’s right to have shared care or equal time with both parents. These people have totally ignored the paramount rights of the child for their own selfish needs, to take out their spite and get back at the other party.
President's Report December 2009 - January 2010
Another Year gone by and LFAA is still going strongly as a matter of fact we have just reopened Tasmania branch with a new committee and our Bundaberg Qld branch with a new committee.
We will be opening more branches in Sydney, Melbourne and one in WA very early in the new year.
Its been a hectic year but with a lot of successes. I can honestly say that regardless of all the negative reporting you may have heard about the new shared responsibility—shared care laws it is complete lies, extreme feminist lies, to try and have those laws overturned for their own greedy selves, they are putting their greed and hate before their own children.