ENOUGH IS ENOUGH family court survivor NZ

My name is Tanya Dunstan. I am a business owner, athlete, personal trainer and loving mum of two Australian children who have been detained in New Zealand against my wishes for over 3 years.

I have been subject to extreme emotional, psychological and financial abuse for in excess of 6 years. Inclusive of this I have been personally persecuted and prosecuted by family court abuse for the past 3 years. I understand first hand how truly devastating domestic violence is and how abusers can perpetuate their abuse in the family court to isolate a parent from their children. I have seen first hand how this destroys a childs confidence, sense of stability and trust in people and how it robs children of their innocence and right to a care free childhood.

I have seen personally how courts can operate to assist abusers by concealing evidence and disregard court rules for the sake of their own convenience and bias agenda. I have heard and witnessed Judges intentionally draw out proceedings, in my and my childrens' case for over 3 years still without resolution, despite this being harmful to the children. Justice delayed is justice denied yet this tactic is employed by judges, abusers and even solicitors allegedly representing the children, in the hope of torturing victims to the point of breaking. (Statistics of suicides and hospitalizations each year due to mental health breakdowns as a direct result of this form legal torture are staggering and can not be ignored.)

https://www.areyouok.org.nz/family-violence/statistics/

BUT.. what happens when you don’t break?

1.You get angry for your children and other victims.

2. You get passionate to advocate for others and

3. You get empowered with different platforms to stand up and speak out for the women, men and children who do not have voices, strength or courage to keep fighting for their rights.

NO MORE will I be silenced by suppression laws alleging to protect my children.

NO MORE will I accept generic buck passing from members of parliament and government organisations who refuse to act on evidence of child abuse and undeniable miscarriages of justice.

NO MORE will my children and countless others remain hostage in a system not “broken” but engineered to abuse them for the financial gain and sick sense of power of registrar staff, solicitors, contact centres and morally and ethically corrupt judges.

Change is coming and it is starting in New Zealand with particular attention on the judicial bias and injustice of Manukau Court, Auckland Court and others from the district and high Court levels up to the appeals court based in wellington.

I have exhausted all avenues with judicial reviews, high court appeals, law enforcement officers, governing bodies, politicians and legal advisors. I am now pursuing other avenues to advocate for law reform. Alone and isolated our voice is silent, together our voices will be deafening and unmistakable.

It takes one case to set a legal precedent. Seven matters to start a class action and someone prepared to fight relentlessly for human rights to create change. Law reform and the removal of morally corrupt and ethically bankrupt individuals from positions of power could save hundreds if not thousands of children and their parents from extreme, potentially fatal, harm.

*IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC SAFETY, If ANYONE HAS HAD CONCERNING DEALINGS WITH ANY MANUKAU COURT STAFF, JUDGES OR UNSATISFACTORY DEALINGS WITH REPRESENTATION OF:

Christina Riddell

Emma Gibbs

Colleen Newton

Peter Wilson

Rebecca Gates

Please contact me in complete confidence.

Jacinta Ardern submitted a media release on 6 March 2019 stating “One of our goals and aspirations as a Government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. We always hear about New Zealand being a great place to raise a family – and that’s certainly true. But we can always do more.

The way we treat children, the way we look after their well-being, and the way we ensure the lives they lead are full of opportunity says so much about what kind of country we are.

That’s why so many of this Government’s policy priorities focus on improving the lives of Kiwi kids.”

I ask you how you can allege this with any shred of truth or conviction when your office is inundated with evidence of child abuse that you generically respond to months later; “We can not comment on individual matters, this is best dealt with through the family court.” The same family court refusing to accept applications for filing, disregarding human rights to freedom of information and failing to make any decisions on extreme court order contravention, child abuse and neglect?

The same family court disregarding the Bill of Rights Act, The Official Information Act and United Nations convention of childrens rights Act, withholding an entire case file and countless transcripts from a victim of domestic violence who is self represented due to extreme financial hardship and extensive court abuse?

The same family court who has disregarded court rules to list urgent hearings or have an expedited final hearing within 6 weeks due to Hague proceedings for two Australian children who had a non removal order placed on them 3 days after they arrived in New Zealand in January 2018?

Does the government not deem this to be an extreme abuse of power which has seen the New Zealand court in effect, assist an abuser in the abduction of two children, one of whom the alleged offender has no biological relationship to?

Perhaps while making sweeping statements about New Zealand being the best place for “KIWI” children to grow up in you could make this more inclusive for all children of all countries who reside in New Zealand. Similarly your laws to “protect New Zealand citizens” could be improved to protect all residents of New Zealand to ensure some human rights of foreigners are honoured in this country . It has become alarmingly clear, that as Australian citizens, myself and my children have no rights in this country and while we remain here we continue to be abused, harassed and intimidated by law enforcement officers and the courts and concurrently ignored by social services, social workers and government officials when we reach out for help.

Here are some staples to consider at the upsoming parliament meeting on 8th April 2021 in Wellington:

1. Take the money out of the courts.
2. Stop rewarding the courts and "servants" (criminals) of the court to profiteer from drawn out proceedings at the expense of justice and childrens safety.
3. Remedy this obvious failing by withholding payments from judges and solicitors until matters are resolved with final orders.
4. Have penalties for adjournments, vacated hearings and other delayed tactics.
5. Tax judges for reserved decisions at a daily rate.
6. Penalise solicitors for failing to act promptly and compile reports in short time frames.
7. Penalise the law society for failing to uphold their duty of care to disbar dishonest and dishonourable solicitors.
8. Enforce the courts to penalise everyone for clear perjury. *This is now such a joke that solicitors are encouraging their clients to file false and misleading affidavits for "the best outcome in the fastest time frame" and when perjury is proven, in my case, at the expense of three years of torment for myself and my children there was NO ADMONISHMENT for our abuser because the judge was feeling "generous" [D vs N Manukau Court- reserved decision Judge Adams 24 August 2020]
9. Have judges held accountable for their decisions with an independent review.
10. Change the justice system to have a government body who independently investigates criminal conduct and embezzlement. [not the attorney general]

I AM ADVOCATING FOR LAW REFORM IN THE FAMILY COURTS STARTING WITH NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA.

#ENOUGHISENOUGH