Sydney, Australia, the place where they used to send troublesome agitators from the UK and Ireland when they got too vocal! Now, the country once seen as having a laid back, no nonsense approach to life, is in the grip of a raft of new laws that are making life untenable for men faced with relationship and family law proceedings. AVO’s are issued by police without any consideration of the facts; directions and orders are made within family proceedings before any basic safeguarding checks are carried out; free resources and support are so female centric that even the DCJ uses gender divisive language and biased recording practices; family law solicitors put contact before safeguarding and coerce father’s to facilitate handovers and accept children should spend time with the mother because it “will look good for you before the judge” regardless of the inherant risks to the father and the child. It makes UK family courts look progressive.