Our political party is also known as “The Equal Parenting Party” .

(Please click onto the word Summary to view an outline of our overall web-site).

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Latest News:

The current Family Law Inquiry is a complete waste of time.

It has just been shown that the current Family Law Inquiry is a complete waste of time. This is by Kevin Andrew’s own comment to Professor Mushin that “I fully understand that, Professor” at the Family Law Inquiry.

This is an extract of the transcript at the conclusion of the proceedings held on 16 September 2020. The Chair(person) is Kevin Andrews MP. Andrews will be employing someone to write the report for him. It is a chairperson’s report. It is not a committee report. The other members of the Committee will have little input in the writing of the final report. This includes Senator Pauline Hanson.

The transcript of the proceedings states:

CHAIR: Yes, I’m struggling myself to work out what could be done. But the propensity of evidence we have had—we have to weigh it—certainly seems to suggest that there are sufficient instances in which there is noncompliance with orders for which there is little consequence. It may be that there isn’t much we can do or suggest. I was just trying to tease out whether there is some way of improving the system in this regard.

Prof. Mushin: Noncompliance is something that judges agonise over. It’s not as simple as, for example, where a contract is breached and a court orders, ‘You will pay X dollars by Y date.’ What you have in the background is a child or children, and the question of their best interests is highly relevant. For example, the primary carer of a child might be absolutely flagrantly and egregiously breaching an order to allow the child to see the other parent. One of the problems is that the primary relationship might be between the child and that primary parent. Therefore, penalising the primary parent, for example—even by jail, ultimately—can be a major penalty on the child himself or herself. As a result, you would be not observing the requirement of the child’s best interests being paramount. That balance is so exquisitely difficult in enforcement proceedings.

CHAIR: I fully understand that, Professor. I thank you both for your submissions and for the discussion of them this afternoon. It has been most informative. We appreciate your expertise and your willingness to share it with the committee.

Prof. Mushin: Thank you

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Bring on the next Inquiry!!

John Flanagan.

Transcript link

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In terms of human suffering, the Australian public has already paid dearly for the failure to reform outdated, badly administered and inappropriate institutions dealing with family breakdown — and for the failure of governments to take seriously the voices of the men and women most directly affected by them. The country’s failure to reform its dysfunctional and discredited family law and child support systems is ultimately a failure of democracy itself.

The complete article can be found at this link.

Voluntary De-Registration

We advise that we have decided to voluntarily de-register the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) with the Australian Electoral Commission. This was effective from 27 May 2020.

Our party was originally registered as the Non-Custodial Parents Party on 12 January 1999. We were then subsequently re-registered as the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) as from 30 August 2007.

The Party Secretary, Andrew Thompson and myself would like to thank everyone for their support over the years.

The reason for the voluntary de-registration is that since the 2016 electoral changes, small political parties such as our party have been made ineffective at election time. Please see further comments on our History web-page.

John Flanagan.

Voluntary-deregistration

The Public Hearing for the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System

. Hi to Everyone.

The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System held one of their 15 public hearings on Friday 13 March 2020. This hearing was held in the Robinson/William Room of the Sydney Boulevard Hotel, 90 William Street, Sydney.

John Flanagan and Andrew Thompson from the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) appeared as witnesses at this public hearing.

John Flanagan

Our Submissions to the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System

The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System was appointed by resolution of the Senate on 18 September 2019 and resolution of the House of Representatives on 19 September 2019

A submission was made by the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) to the Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System. It is dated 23 September 2019 and a copy can found by clicking onto this link – NCCP(EP) Submission and our supplementary submission which was tabled at the Sydney hearing held on 13 March 2020.

Both submissions are listed as submission number 1 on the Joint Select Committee’s web-site .

Also an individual submission was as provided by our Party Secretary and Registered Officer, Andrew Thompson. It is dated 28 October 2019 and a copy can be found by clicking onto the following 3 links.

Andrew Thompson’s submission page 1.

Andrew Thompson’s submission page 2.

Andrew Thompson’s submission page 3.

Andrew’s submission is number 108 on the Joint Select Committee’s web-site.

We note that the date for lodgement of submissions has closed. Public hearings are now being held at various locations. The Inquiry’s reporting date is 6 October 2020. However we understand that this date may be extended until 2020. This is due to Covid-19 virus issues.

The link to all of the submissions on the Joint Select Committee’s web-site is as follows:

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Parents for Children Rally.

Parents For Children Rally Everyone, who attended, enjoyed themselves at theheld in the Sydney CBD on 7 July 2019.

Damien Twigg Thank youfor organising the rally.

John Flanagan, Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) at the rally outside the Family Court in Sydney .

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The 2019 Federal Election.

John Flanagan from the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) received 1,213 votes (1.20 per cent) for Cunningham in the 2019 Federal Election). (In comparison, John Flanagan from the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) received 1,582 votes (1.63 per cent) for Cunningham in the 2016 Federal Election). (Also, in comparison, Wayne Hartman from the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) received 2,081 votes (2.11 per cent) for Whitlam in the 2016 Federal Election).

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Our Proposed Family Law and Child Support Amendment Bill We have given up waiting for our elected parliamentarians to make the necessary changes to the family law and child support legislation. Therefore we have produced our own bill and explanatory memorandum Our proposed Bill for family law and child support reform, the Explanatory Memorandum and a Summary (for easy understanding of the main issues) are provided below.

Our Family Law and Child Amendment Support Bill.

Our Explanatory Memorandum

Our Summary

We gave these details personally to both Senator Pauline Hanson and the then Senator Brian Burston sometime ago when we met them on 8 November 2016. We also emailed copies of the details to both Senators prior to the meeting. (This was when Senator Burston was in the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party). A photograph of the meeting in Senator Pauline Hanson’s office is provided below.

Apparently after the meeting Senator Hanson did pass the documents onto the lawyer-backed Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) for review. However nothing happened. We did not even receive a reply. It was just a waste of time.

It is disappointing to see this lack of real action by our elected political representatives, particularly by politicians such as Senator Pauline Hanson and Senator Brian Burston.

Postscript.

On 3 September 2018, we also emailed Senator Brian Burston a further copy of the above proposed Family Law and Child Support Amendment Bill, Explanatory Memorandum and Summary.

This was re-sent to Senator Burston because he was now no longer with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party. He was now with the United Australia Party.

This email made a further request to table the Family Law and Child Support Amendment Bill and Explanatory Memorandum in Parliament.

However there was absolutely no response to our email by Senator Burston (as a postscript – following the 2019 Federal Election, Senator Brian Burston, is now longer a Senator)

This just indicates that all of our currently elected politicians to Canberra simply do not care about making real changes to fix the family law and child support problems that exist in this country.

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ALRC Family Law Inquiry. The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) conducted an inquiry into the family law system. The results of the Inquiry were released in March 2019. Due to the fact that the ALRC review committee is almost entirely made up of lawyers and judges, we had declined to make a submission to the inquiry. The unfortunate recommendations made in the report, such as the removal of shared parenting, have shown that our non-submission was justified.

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1. Introduction.

Family law and child support issues can consist of property and superannuation splitting, child access, child support payments, allegations of family violence and/or child abuse, parental alienation, relocation of children, forced removal of children by welfare authorities or some other similar issue.

Once having been involved in one or more of the above issues, most people will invariably ask themselves one (1) or two (2) of the following questions.

. 1. What was the cause of their unfair and inequitable result?

. 2. How can this system be fixed to prevent this problem from happening to other people, in the future?.

The answer can be found in the fact that the family law and child support problem is caused by an agenda.

This agenda is “equal pay for one gender“. The “less than equal” gender is normally the female gender (although it can be the male gender in some cases).

The process to achieve this aim of equality has become both unfair and unrealistic.

Our solution is quite simple – equal parenting and the capping of child support payments.

We want equal parenting as the starting point, after either divorce or separation. We also want a realistic cap on child support payments. This is to provide fairness and equality.

2 . The Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) .

The Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) is an Australian political party. Until 27 May 2020, we were registered with the Australian Electoral Commission.

The party’s membership mainly consists of divorced and separated parents, their spouses and partners, grandparents, relatives, friends and anyone else who believes that children have a right to be cared for by both their parents.

All parents, spouses, partners grandparents, relatives, friends and any interested persons are encouraged to join our political party.

Everyone is very welcome to join the Party – this is regardless of your marital or relationship status that is of the same or of a different sex background.

3. The Australian Electoral Commission’s Registration of our Party.

We were first registered as a political party with the AEC in 1999. Since then, we have successfully passed six (6) Australian Electoral Commission reviews that were carried out in 2003, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017. We formally requested voluntary de-registration in 2020.

4. Our Recommended Voting Preferences.

Since the electoral voting changes that were made in 2016, minor political parties, such as our party, have little direct effect on the voting outcomes.

For example, the voting system for the Senate is now optional preferential above the line voting. Voters for the candidates for the Senate rank at least their first six candidates themselves – thus distributing their own preferences.

As a guide, we would recommend that your first preferences go to the Australian Better Families Party (with aims and objectives similar to ours), then to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party and the Christian parties; then to the Nationals and the Liberals; then to the Labor Party and lastly to the Greens.

However, of course, as noted above that decision would ultimately be your decision.

Please click onto Voting Preferences for details of these suggestions

5. Details of Previous Federal Elections.

You can view our history and the electoral results for the Federal Elections

The details of the Federal Elections held in 2001, 2002 (By-Election), 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 can be found by clicking onto NCPP(EP) History and Elections Results.

Also, similar details providing our history and the Federal Election results for the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) can be found on the Wikipedia web page located at Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)

6. Our Aim and Objectives.

a). Aim.

The aim of the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) is to:

a. Minimise government interference in decisions that affect separated families.

and to

b. Maximise the initiative of individual parents to make those decisions.

The parents and the guardians of their children are the best people to determine what is the right thing to do for their children – not someone from either the Government or the Family Court.

b). Objectives.

The objectives of the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) are to:

Change Family Law legislation, so that children have the right to see both parents and be involved with their children.

and at the same time

Change Child Support legislation so that child support is fairer (for both parents*).

(* child support does not help either parent with the 43.8 per cent unemployment rate for payers of child support payers).

7. Our Policies.

Our policies and the legislative changes that we require can be found by clicking onto the items below marked in blue:-

The NCPP(EP) Family Law and child Support Policies can be found at Family Law–Child Support Policy

The legislative changes need to be made to our current legislation. can be found at essential legislative changes

8. Submissions, Speech, Photos and Media Interviews.

Our party has made numerous submissions, speeches, street protests and media interviews. These include the following:

NCPP(EP) speeches at formal functions that we have attended as representatives of our party .

9. Membership Details.

If required, please download a NCPP(EP) membership application form in either pdf format or MS Word format . Please note that our party is no longer registered with the Australian Electoral Commission as a political party.

The NCPP(EP) membership can be also mailed to you. If required, please click onto this link and fill in your contact details – Request a Membership Form

Alternatively please clink onto:

Membership Request First Name Surname (required) Email (valid email required) Street Address State ==choose one== NSW Qld Vic SA WA Tas ACT NT Postcode Home Phone Number Mobile Phone Number Please send me a Membership form

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If your details have changed since joining our party, you can download a NCPP(EP) “Change of Contact Details” form in either pdf format MS Word format.

10. Donations.

Due to our voluntary de-registration with the AEC, donations are not required at this time.

Please click Donations for details

11. Volunteers.

Due to our voluntary re-registration with the A.E.C., volunteers are not required at this time.

Please click Volunteers for details.

12. Typical Parenting Agreements and Plans.

13. Our Family Law Petition.

Please download and sign our ongoing Family Law Petition

After signing, would you either scan and email the petition to our email address or mail it to:

John Flanagan, Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting), PO Box 57, THIRROUL. NSW. 2515.

14. Latest “Reddit” News.

Details of the latest family law and child support news, both in Australia and overseas, can be viewed by clicking onto the “Reddit” image. This image is located on the right hand sidebar of this page.

15. Protest Meetings.

We held our first street protest meeting in February 2008. Since then we have organised fifty two (52) street protests.

Photos of these 52 protest meetings and some other protest meetings, that we have also attended, can be found by clicking the link: photographs.

16. Facebook.

For further information about the NCPP(EP), our Facebook page can be located by clicking onto.:

17. Meetings with Elected Parliamentarians.

We often meet with the elected Parliamentarians to discuss family law and child support issues.

18. Our Contact Details.

Andrew “Andy” Thompson

The Party Secretary and Registered Officer,

PO Box 97, DOUGLAS PARK. NSW. 2569.

Phone: 02 4630 9072 and 0408 645 511

Fax 02 4630 8300

Email: noncustod@yahoo.com.au

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John Flanagan,

Deputy Registered Officer,

Address: PO Box 57, THIRROUL. NSW. 2515.

Phone no: 0415 899 574.

Email: noncustod@yahoo.com.au

(Please click the word Summary to view an outline of our overall web-site)

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This web-site is authorised by John Flanagan, 202 Lawrence Hargrave Drive. THIRROUL. NSW. 2515. (mailing address is PO Box 57, THIRROUL. NSW. 2515). Mobile number 0415 899 574.

John Flanagan is the Deputy Registered Officer of the Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting) .

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