Children's Court of Victoria comprises the Family and Criminal Divisions. Our reference here is to the Children's Court – Family Division – and its hearing of applications relating to the care and protection of children and young people. Inquiries included: BrouwerGeorge, Own motion investigation into the Department of Human Services, Child Protection Program, (Ombudsman Victoria, 2009); Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry: Terms Of Reference (7 March 2012) Child Protection Inquiry <http://www.childprotectioninquiry.vic.gov.au/terms-of-reference.html>; Victorian Law Reform Commission, Review of Victoria's child protection legislative arrangements: Terms of reference, (31 October 2012) <http://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/projects/child-protection/child-protection-terms-reference>.
2.
VLA, Submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry (VLA, 26 July 2011); WarnerBevan, Supplementary submission, (2011); LIV, Submission to Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry (2011); FCLC, Submission: Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, (2011).
3.
Brouwer, above n 1, 50, 57, 58, 66.
4.
Anglicare, Berry Street, MacKillop Family Services, The Salvation Army, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency and Centre for Excellence, May 2011, A better approach to protection and care: A submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, Child Protection Inquiry, <http://www.childprotectioninquiry.vic.gov.au/images/stories/submissions/anglicare-victoria-et-al.pdf>; McDonaldPaul, ‘Children lost in a chaotic court system’, The Age (Melbourne), 11 October 2010.
5.
Office Child Safety Commissioner (‘OCSC’), 2011, Submission by the OCSC to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry; CrawfordCarly, ‘Push to abolish Children's Court in Victoria under welfare shake-up’, Herald-Sun (Melbourne), 13 September 2011; NaderCarol, ‘Call to make child protection less hostile’, The Age (Melbourne), 6 October 2010.
6.
CumminsPhilipScottDorothy & ScalesBill, 2012, Report of the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry.
7.
Victorian Government, Directions Paper Victoria's Vulnerable Children: Our Shared Responsibility, (2012), in particular see 18–22.
8.
See Cummins, above n 6, for evidence about the clash of cultures, 386.
9.
Anglicare, above n 4, 52.
10.
Brouwer, above n 1, 47.
11.
Ibid.
12.
McDonald, above n 4.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Anglicare, above n 4, 53.
15.
Children's Court of Victoria, 2011a, Submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, 15.
16.
Children's Court of Victoria, 2011b, Supplementary submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, 28–29.
17.
GrantPaul, ‘Safeguarding children must concern us all’, The Age, 22 December 2009, 11.
18.
VLA, above n 2, 20, see also, Children's Court of Victoria, above n 15, 17–19.
19.
BorehamRebecca, ‘The chance to be heard’, The Age (Melbourne), 21 December 2009, 17.
20.
Anglicare, above n 4, 52–55.
21.
MacIntyreAlasdair, After Virtue: A study in moral theory (University of Notre Dame Press, 2nd ed, 1984), 8.
22.
GleesonMurray, The rule of law and the Constitution: Boyer Lectures (ABC Books, 2000) 1–2.
23.
Boreham, above n 19.
24.
GormanJoe, Case's publicity shows why DHS should answer to court, The Age (Melbourne), 15 December 2009, 15.
