SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel Members
SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel members are leaders in their field – and experts in single parent issues. Exclusive single mother interest articles are produced by Expert Opinion Panel members each month, covering a whole range of relevant and up-to-the-minute single parenting issues.
Author Emeritus Professor Freda Briggs AO, Humanitarian and Child Protection Expert, is a researcher and lecturer in sociology, child protection and family studies for the University of South Australia.
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Dr Elspeth McInnes AM is a researcher sociologist in the School of Education at the University of South Australia with expertise in areas of family violence, child abuse and child protection. Her research has focused on family separation and divorce, and the policies, practices and institutions which respond to families, particularly those where family violence is an issue.
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Grace Lawson obtained her law degree in 2002 and commenced practicing as a solicitor in personal injury law, criminal law, and family law. Grace’s practice quickly became focused solely on family law. In 2013 Grace became admitted to practice as a barrister and now practices at the private bar in Queensland. Her practice includes family law, personal injury, and employment law.
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Stephen Page, Lawyer – Brisbane, Queensland
Stephen Page is a partner of Harrington Family Lawyers, one of Brisbane’s oldest boutique family law firms. Admitted in 1987, Stephen has been an accredited family law specialist since 1996. A co-founder of a domestic violence service, Stephen has been a member since 1999 of a committee for a court based domestic violence service and since 2008 a board member of a charity linking business with the domestic violence sector.
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Jason is a business and finance journalist with 20 years experience. He has a regular weekly column in the Sunday Mail (Brisbane) and writes regularly for the Business Daily section of the Herald Sun in Melbourne and many other newspapers and magazines.
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Dan Davis is a Nutritional Therapist based in London and Kent in the UK. Dan found a passion for nutrition after reaching a life threatening weight of 165 kilos. As well as the physical restrictions associated with a body that large, he was suffering crippling gout attacks for which he took endless pain killing and anti-inflammatory drugs, with no understanding of the causes of the condition.
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Charles Pragnell is an independent Expert Defence Witness for Child Protection and has given evidence to courts in England, Scotland, and New Zealand. Since 1990 he has acted as an advocate/representative for children and families in child protection matters and other proceedings involving various state agencies. Since 1996 he has made special studies of issues involving Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
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