Amanda Gearing | Journalist
Amanda Gearing
Phone: +61 417 733 354
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25.01.2022 More important than his role in Big Brother is that he was a single expert witness in Family Court cases. Given his offending, every case is at risk of a miscarriage of justice and children being removed from a protective parent and handed to a child sex offender.
25.01.2022 This Sunday is the tenth anniversary of the flash flood disaster in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. The interviews I recorded with flood survivors and rescuers in 2011 and in 2016 are now being made into a podcast called The Torrent. I am initially publishing two stories about each location and will gradually add more episodes in coming weeks. To listen to the first episode, go to the following URL: https://thetorrent.fireside.fm/springbluffrailwaystation
24.01.2022 Interesting point: Foster carers can become parties to Family Court cases even if there is a willing and able biological parent to care for the child. Family Court can recognise the foster parents as the actual parents. The biological parent will then need to spend tens of thousands of dollars (which they may not have) to fight for their own child. This hellish scenario occurs when the Queensland Child Safety Department removes a child from a negligent parent and places them... with a foster parent temporarily. The legislation requires that the child can only be given back TO THE SAME (negligent) PARENT. Child Safety can't give the child back to the SAFE parent. The safe parent has to fight for their child in the Family Court - if they can afford it. Imagine the frustration of a good parent losing the child into foster care and then having to pay lawyers to fight for their own child - from people who are not even related to the child. See more
23.01.2022 Not knowing about coercive control was deadly to Hannah Clarke and her children. Her parents Lloyd and Sue Clarke are courageously honouring the legacy of their daughter and grandchildren by seeking law reform and community awareness of the dangers of coercive control. #HannahClarke
22.01.2022 This story was six months in the making but it has started to yield the change that needs to be made to protect women and children from coercive control. Two families in crisis have reached out for help to get women and children to safety. https://www.theguardian.com//lloyd-and-sue-clarke-coercive
21.01.2022 If you, or anyone you know, is experiencing domestic abuse, please listen to this podcast. It is very confronting but it is compelling and important information. One listener who heard it this week sat on the couch in shock all day. Next day she started mobilising to get to safety. This podcast and story are beginning to save lives. #SmallSteps4Hannah
21.01.2022 Mental injury is finally being recognised by medical science.
13.01.2022 This is one of the many extraordinary stories of courage that emerged from the 2011 disaster.
09.01.2022 It's not a 'bitter custody dispute' when a mother asks the Family Court of Australia to protect her child from a serial killer. The Court handed her over. How terrifying for the mother and child. #LegalisedDomesticTerrorism #LawReformNeededNow #ChiefJusticeAlstergren
09.01.2022 The Queensland Premier has been procrastinating about a bill to improve child protection based on recommendations of the Royal Commission. The bill has been sitting on the Parliament's To Do list for months despite having bi-partisan support. It really is time priests stopped protecting child sex offenders by hiding behind the seal of the confessional. And it's well past time that convicted offenders could not use character references to mitigate jail terms based on their '...good character' and community service when their offending was facilitated by their community service in churches, youth groups etc. This is the bill: https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au//Tabl/2019/5619T2149.pdf
07.01.2022 The huge response to this story has honoured the extraordinary courage of Lloyd and Sue Clarke and the courage of their daughter Hannah to try to escape to safety with her children.
06.01.2022 The parents of Hannah Clarke have welcomed moves to criminalise coercive control in Queensland as they approach the first anniversary of their daughter’s murder by her husband. The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced the formation of a taskforce to consult with legal and domestic violence experts and victims to make coercively controlling behaviours crimes on Wednesday. Coercive control is a really severe form of oppression that can last months if not years,...Continue reading
