The Hunt for the Family Court Killer Season 1
Murder, terrorism and assassinations re-examined by a tenacious female Chief Inspector. For 40 years a heinous chapter of crime in the name of family values remained unsolved. Told using a trove of archive together with a triple helix of perspectives of the victims, the policing, and the judiciary to access the socio-political contexts of the time, this powerful and engaging new series, examines a case of homeland terrorism in the 1980s, domestic violence and the upsurge of conservative men's groups in response to the progressive Family Court. It exposes a shocking chapter of Australian social history that has frightening relevance today.
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The Hunt for the Family Court Killer
2023
Murder, terrorism and assassinations re-examined by a tenacious female Chief Inspector. For 40 years a heinous chapter of crime in the name of family values remained unsolved. Told using a trove of archive together with a triple helix of perspectives of the victims, the policing, and the judiciary to access the socio-political contexts of the time, this powerful and engaging new series, examines a case of homeland terrorism in the 1980s, domestic violence and the upsurge of conservative men's groups in response to the progressive Family Court. It exposes a shocking chapter of Australian social history that has frightening relevance today.
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The Family Law Act, passed in 1974, transforms the legal and social attitudes to divorce in Australia and provides the first official definition of domestic violence. And then the unthinkable happens.
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