Original copy, Battered by the System, The Australian, 30 May, 2000.

Story published 3 June, 2000.

This is the original copy, which varies to some fair degree.

This was the longest running case in Family Court history, and a particularly complex and revealing case.

Sometimes in the early hours, trying to make sense of it, I would lay out the documents in a line at least 50 feet long.

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