The Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Diana Bryant, in her submission, also favoured a single integrated federal family court structured similarly to the Family Court of Western Australia.
22.
Waddy's son Lloyd served in the RAAF Reserve from 1979 to 1995, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988 and later a Justice of the Family Court of Australia.
23.
Her parents, a married couple from the Northern Territory sought an order from the Family Court of Australia authorising them to have Marion undergo a hysterectomy and an oophrectomy ( removal of ovaries ).
24.
The Federal Court of Australia also has appellate jurisdiction from the Federal Circuit Court of Australia on all matters, with the exception of family law, where the Family Court of Australia has appellate jurisdiction.
25.
The party intends to focus on a single issue of child sexual abuse by advocating in the Australian Senate for the creation of a Royal Commission to investigate perceived failings in the Family Court of Australia.
26.
On 28 May 2015, McClelland was appointed to the Family Court of Australia by Attorney-General George Brandis QC . He is based in the Court's Sydney registry and his appointment commenced on 16 June 2015.
27.
The Court was created to deal with the increasing workload of the Federal Court of Australia and the Family Court of Australia, by hearing less complex cases for them and freeing those Courts to deal only with more complex cases.
28.
Federal judicial power is vested in the High Court of Australia and such other federal courts created by the Federal Parliament, including the Federal Court of Australia, the Family Court of Australia, and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia.
29.
Uniquely among the states, Western Australia took up the option of establishing its own Family Court in 1975, and in that state all jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 is exercised by the Family Court of Western Australia and not the Family Court of Australia.
30.
The majority of the Court made it clear that this was not a consideration in this case but that it was merely deciding a point of law and that the decision about " best interests " would be left to the Family Court of Australia after the case.
