{"id":374,"date":"2023-02-18T01:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avigailslavin.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2025-01-22T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:06:16","slug":"avigails-australian-history-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avigailslavin.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Avigail&#8217;s Australian history (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"374\" class=\"elementor elementor-374\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-97aaaaa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"97aaaaa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5caaada\" data-id=\"5caaada\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0791479 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0791479\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 25-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>A \u201cfamily report\u201d was prepared in 2005 by Court employed \u201cmediator\u201d Paul Lodge. He is apparently regarded as something of a guru within the Court because he had written a paper and given a speech at an international conference on the subject of \u201cchild alienation\u201d from one parent. He thus had a predisposition to try to both protect and enhance his reputation by fitting as many cases as possible into this intellectual framework.\u00a0<\/p><p>Under cross-examination, Lodge said: \u201cThe intense and chronic conflict between the parents has began to erode whatever attachment there was between Jeff and &#8216;A&#8217;, as is entirely predictable given her age and intensity of the conflict\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>This was despite an affidavit prepared by a women at &#8216;A&#8217;s Rose Bay Primary after-school care centre who wrote: \u201cIn the afternoons when Jeff comes to collect &#8216;A&#8217; she always runs up to him to meet him when she sees him and she will not let him talk to staff members or even sign her out. She often says during the course of the afternoon when Jeff is picking her up, in an exited tone: \u2018Daddy\u2019s picking me up this afternoon; Daddy\u2019s picking me up this afternoon.\u201d<\/p><p>Lodge claimed that &#8216;A&#8217; \u201cwould not suffer serious consequences if she were not permitted to see Jeff again\u201d, saying that \u201cobservations of &#8216;A&#8217; with Jeff suggested that the relationship was not affectionate\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>During the case Jeff again attempted to have the Court take note of the views and concerns of &#8216;A\u2019s 17 year-old sister. Unlike Dr. Qadrio in the first Family Law Court case, Lodge refused to talk to the older sister who had witnessed Avigail&#8217;s violence. Suzanne Christie, acting as part of the &#8220;child representative&#8221; team said to Jeff: \u201cShe\u2019s 17, she\u2019ll move on.\u201d While Avigail did cross-examine one of Jeff\u2019s affidavit witnesses, the \u201cchild representative team\u201d did not cross-examine any of them. They thus waited in vain outside the court room.<\/p><p>Jeff\u2019s affidavit to the Family Court referred to two incidents. &#8216;A&#8217; had refused to go with him one day when he went to collect her from her mother, saying: \u201cI\u2019m sick and I want to stay with Mummy\u201d. The next time Jeff had contact with &#8216;A&#8217; when he picked her up from school she was very happy to see him, and eventually said:<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry for what I said.\u201d<\/p><p>In reply Jeff said: \u201cIt\u2019s alright. Just remember that I love you very much.\u201d<\/p><p>In a subsequent conversation. &#8216;A&#8217; said to Jeff: \u201cYou are a good daddy. But it\u2019s a secret.\u201d<\/p><p>Jeff: \u201cWhy is it a secret?\u201d<\/p><p>&#8216;A&#8217;: \u201cDon\u2019t tell Mummy. She hates you. She will smack me.\u201d<\/p><p>Justice O\u2019Ryan in 2002 \u2013 and Dr. Quadrio \u2013 had recognized that Avigail was violent, but Lodge had no interest in pursuing such possible facts. In his mind, the only think that mattered was his own superior judgement base on limited conversations and his theories of \u201cchild alienation\u201d.<\/p><p>During the Court case, Avigail presented a number of documents. In was in pursuit of the origins of one of these documents which purported to offer overseas employment to the mother&#8217;s new husband that Jeff sought to subpoena the supposed author, a Sydney based man. It was only at the very end of the day in Court (about 4pm) that Justice Steele agreed to the subpoena &#8212; which Jeff then had to prepare \u2014 while declaring that he would not admit any testimony by this man unless Jeff could have this man in Court the first thing (9.30am) next morning.\u00a0<\/p><p>When next morning Jeff informed the Judge that he had managed to deliver the subpoena, Steele pointedly said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think that you would make it.&#8221; Appearing in Court, the man said he was not the author and there was no job offer.<\/p><p>In addition to this document, Avigail submitted affidavits from people saying that they thought Jeff was dangerous and a threat to the welfare of &#8216;A&#8217;. These also turned out to be forgeries.<\/p><p>The new husband of Avigail served nearly four years in a NSW prison in the late mid-1990&#8217;s for fraud, and had previously been charged with similar offences in Canada and Queensland &#8212; and it emerged in the Family Court that he was still actively using three different names on various personal and business documentation!<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In his final judgement, Steele said that he had no choice but to indicate in his final decision that \u201cshe knowingly put forward the affidavit said to be that of Mr. \u2026 which was not signed by him and an affidavit of Ms. \u2026 not sworn by her.\u201d In his judgement, Steel wrote that Avigail \u201cwas an unsatisfactory witness. She appeared to present as someone who was uncertain and lacking in confidence and knowledge but seemed acute to any nuances which would assist the version of events which she was putting forward\u201d.<\/span><\/p><p>In his final judgement on 4 May 2005, Steele said Avigail could take &#8216;A&#8217; overseas subject to a \u201cpayment of a $20,000 bond into a joint account of Avigail and Jeff\u201d. He said that if Avigail were permitted to take &#8216;A&#8217; overseas, he would \u201cnot expect Jeff to make significant efforts either in terms of time or money to see her\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>When Jeff asked for a stay order so he could prepare and lodge an appeal document, Steele refused the request and said he would only grant this after the appeal was lodged. When Jeff objected that \u201cthey could leave straight away\u201d, Steele said: \u201cProbably. You better hurry up and get your appeal in\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;Child representatives&#8221; Jane Saltoon and Suzanne Christie said nothing in response to this. With help of a barrister Jeff lodged an appeal order on 6 May. After explaining the urgency of the application to registry staff one of them went away and returned saying that he had spoken directly with Steele who refused to hear the issue before 19 May.<\/p><p>Oblivious to all this, on Wednesday 18 May Jeff went to pick up &#8216;A&#8217; from an after school dance class and was told that she was not there. He was eventually able to determine that &#8216;A&#8217; had not been at school that day and that the mother had earlier told a friend that she was going to Russia. In a panic, Jeff rang the Family Court only to have Joanne Chayna &#8212; a third \u00a0member of the supposedly &#8220;independent&#8221; child representative team &#8212; answer the phone!<\/p><p>It later emerged that Avigail had taken Steele\u2019s orders to Federal Police on 9 May. A policewomen rang Steele\u2019s associate who confirmed that the O\u2019Ryan imposed PASS order preventing &#8216;A&#8217; leaving Australia no longer applied &#8212; and they left Australia!<\/p><p>Jane Saltoon later suggested to Jeff that Steele had \u201cintentionally\u201d frustrated his efforts to lodge an appeal, and thus allowed Avigail to take &#8216;A&#8217; overseas &#8212; and thus avoid both paying a $20,000 bond and a perjury charge. Saltoon later seems to have regretted her (in her own words) \u201cwent along with it\u201d attitude as she described it to Jeff in a later telephone conversation.\u00a0<\/p><p>It is worth noting that after Jeff had faxed a copy of Steele&#8217;s May 2005 reasons\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">for judgement to Dr. Quadrio (the psychiatrist who produced the Family Report when the issue was before Justice O&#8217;Ryan in 2002), she rang him and said that she was willing to make an exception to her normal rule and become re-involved in this case if it was legally possible. She indicated that she was not impressed with Lodge&#8217;s assessment.<\/span><\/p><p>The video below was recorded the day AFTER the Court decided that the relationship between Jeff and Anastasia was &#8220;not affectionate&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a06da12 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a06da12\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15cd600\" data-id=\"15cd600\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cd17d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"3cd17d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/D-14naEpxeM&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 25-10-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-video .elementor-widget-container{overflow:hidden;transform:translateZ(0)}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper{aspect-ratio:var(--video-aspect-ratio)}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper iframe,.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper video{height:100%;width:100%;display:flex;border:none;background-color:#000}@supports not (aspect-ratio:1\/1){.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper{position:relative;overflow:hidden;height:0;padding-bottom:calc(100% \/ var(--video-aspect-ratio))}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper iframe,.elementor-widget-video .elementor-wrapper video{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0}}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-open-inline .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;background-size:cover;background-position:50%}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{cursor:pointer;text-align:center}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay:hover .elementor-custom-embed-play i{opacity:1}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay img{display:block;width:100%;aspect-ratio:var(--video-aspect-ratio);-o-object-fit:cover;object-fit:cover;-o-object-position:center center;object-position:center center}@supports not (aspect-ratio:1\/1){.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay{position:relative;overflow:hidden;height:0;padding-bottom:calc(100% \/ var(--video-aspect-ratio))}.elementor-widget-video .elementor-custom-embed-image-overlay img{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0}}.elementor-widget-video .e-hosted-video .elementor-video{-o-object-fit:cover;object-fit:cover}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-video,.e-con>.elementor-widget-video{width:var(--container-widget-width);--flex-grow:var(--container-widget-flex-grow)}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cfamily report\u201d was prepared in 2005 by Court employed \u201cmediator\u201d Paul Lodge. 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