Think the Family Court is a disaster now? Hanson would make it worse

June 18, 2026 — 5:00am

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Too many abortions in this country, said Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Next target? Childcare. And that was after her angry and predictable rant against multiculturalism.

Hanson’s views on family life in this country bear absolutely no relationship to what actually goes on in our homes.

My guess? Her “policies” would lead to far more stress and pain among our families. And what would happen next? More separation, more divorce.

What Hanson would do to the Family Court if, heaven forfend, she ever had untrammelled power is even worse. Hanson does not believe women. I don’t think she even believes in the experience of women. Take her position on the bullying of Victoria’s Premier Jacinta Allan.

What drives her? Here’s my view. In 2016, her son Adam made national headlines when he pleaded guilty in a Cairns court to breaching a domestic violence order. We can’t really know what happens in a family, but we do know this. Hanson’s views on the Family Court hardened.

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Here’s what she told the Senate a year later: “Let me add in this debate that, apart from the many Australians that I meet when I move around Australia, this is a personal matter for me as a mother and as a grandmother. I’ve been through the court systems, and I’ve had to watch my sons go through the family law courts and how they were treated by their ex-spouses.

“I’ve seen DVOs put on them that were not warranted. I feel for the men out there that are going through this, because it’s unjustified. They have no recourse, they are missing........

© The Sydney Morning Herald