Divorce in Australia

Hussain Jamila , ‘More than One Law for All — Legal Pluralism in Australia’ (Paper presented at Fifteenth Annual Public Law Weekend, The Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University, 4 September 2010) <http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/Conferences&SawerLecture/2010/Hussain.pdf> at 7 September 2011.

Marchetti Elena and Daly Kathleen , ‘Indigenous Courts and Justice Practices in Australia’ (Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No 277, Australian Institute of Criminology, May 2004) 1.

ALRC, Multiculturalism and the Law, Report 57 (1992) Ch 5.

Williamson Amanda , ‘An Examination of Jewish Divorce under the Family Law Act 1975’ (2004) 11 James Cook University Law Review 132, 138.

Family Law Council, Report on Cultural Community Divorce and the Family Law Act 1975 (August 2001).

Ibid 6.

For more information on Islamic Law, see Hussain Jamila , Islam: It's Law and Society (2nd ed, 2003).

Esposito John L , Islam: The Straight Path (1998) 234.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (2006).

Black Ann , ‘Why Islamic Law Matters in Queensland’ (2009) 29(3) Proctor 25, 25.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Al-Imam Zain-ud-Din Ahmad bin Abdul-Lateef Az-Zubaidi translated by Khan Muhammad Muhsin Dr , ‘Sahih Al Bukhari’ (2004) no 2796.

Personal interviews with local Imams in Brisbane (2009), record of interviews on file with author.

Doi Abdur Rahman , The Islamic Law (2002) 115.

Sabbiq Sayyid , The Doctrinal Writings of the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (1996) 372.

Doi , above n 15, 158.

Interviews, above n 14.

Sabbiq , above n 16, 372.

Quran Yusuf Ali (4:128).

Ibid 2:187.

Ibid 9:71.

Ibid 4:19.

Doi , above n 15, 158

Kamali Mohammad Hashim , Islamic Law in Malaysia (2000) 75.

Doi , above n 15, 168.

Quran , above n 20, 4:128.

Ibid 2:229; 4:35; 4:135.

Ibid 4:35.

Ibid 4:130.

Kamali , above n 25, 79.

Interviews, above n 14.

Kamali , above n 25, 74

Ahmad Nehalludin , A Critical Appraisal of Triple Divorce in Islam (2009) 53.

Ibid 59.

Hussain , above n 7, 108.

Ibid.

Interviews, above n 14.

Hussain , above n 7, 106.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, above n 9.

Interviews, above n 14.

Hussain , above n 7, 218.

Ibid 219.

Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) s 50(1).

Maqsood Ruqaiyyah Waris , Islam, Culture and Women <www.islamfortoday.com/ruqaiyyah09.htm> at 22 August 2011.

Faizi Nooria , ‘Domestic Violence in the Muslim Community’ (2001) 10 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 209, 211.

Hussain , above n 7, 202.

Williamson , above n 4.

Ibid.

Interviews, above n 14.

LeBaron Michelle , Culture and Conflict (July 2003) <beyondintractability.org/essay/culture_conflict/> at 22 August 2011.

Kamali Mohammad Hashim , Islamic Law in Malaysia (2000) 13.

Saeed Abdullah , Intepreting the Quran – Towards a Contemporary Approach (2006) 8.

Kamali , above n 54, 80.

Interviews, above n 14.

Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) s 45.

Black , above n 10, 25.

Kamali , above n 54, 82.

Black , above n 10, 25.

Williams Rowan , Civil and Religious Law in England: A Religious Perspective (7 February 2008) <www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1137/archbishops-lecture-civil-and-religious-law-in-england-a-religious-perspective> at 22 August 2011.

See Williamson , above n 4, for a detailed account of the operation of the Jewish system of divorce in Australia without legal recognition.