Ituarnk No. 3616. Arg ows-b
PERTH, THURSDAY 25, 1973.
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Divorce law; support for marriage urged To the extent that it eased for some people some of the injustice and other displeasing features of present divorce cases, the new Federal proposals for cheaper divorce announced last week were welcomed by Father Barry Hickey, Director of the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau and the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council.
MELBOURNE.—The Government's philosophy and proposals for implementing its needs policy in granting aid to schools were discussed by the Federal Minister for Education, Mr. Beazley, in a letter to the editor of the "Advocate", the Catholic newspaper.
"For many people" he —although I believe that aches a lawyer he will said, "a divorce action is they will damage them- often take the individual He was replying to cation. client's point of view. an ugly, dirty businses selves in such unions." "Mostly this has been criticism of the GovernA second legal support Unless he is a highly moand for many a traumamerit's needs-basis policy an exercise of the power demanded by Father tivated person the lawyer tic experience". non-government to grant benefits to stufor Hickey was for some will not be committed I n addition, there was dents. schools. reconcilia- to maintaining the maran element of injustice compulsory "The schools commit"The aim of the Intertion procedures to be in- riage" Fr. Hickey said. in that a number of broim Schools Committee tee and the commission A third legal support ken marriages were be- troduced through family and, later, the aim of the operate in a different dicourts, or something si- could be in the form of ing denied access to the HICKEY FATHER Schools Commission is mension of the Constitufinancial assistance from milar. court because of the high and will be to get the sub- tion — the power to make "At present a lawyer is the government to voluncost involved. ject of financial assis- grants under Section 96. obliged to notify couples tary bodies who were "Statistics about de tance by the Common"Icannot see that there of the existence of Mar- prepared to provide marfacto relationships and riage Guidance Councils riage preparation courwealth to State and pri- is equality of need bevate schools out of the tween children (for exparticularly deserted hu- and the court can direct ses in the community, field of political argu- ample, that I am obliged sbands and wives, who a couple to receive such allowing for the fact ment and into the field of to find an 'isolated childare a big charge at pre- guidance. Since 1961 when that attendance at these objective assessment by ren allowance' for childsent on the State, indi- the present legislation courses would always be a body of experts of ac- ren in cities), nor can I cate that the number of was introduced only four voluntary. tion that should be taken, personally see that there Father Hickey sumpeople getting a divorce cases in the whole of Mr. Beazley said. is equality of need beis only the tip of the ice- Australia have ever been med up his opinion as This approach, he said, tween schools. follows: berg of the actual situa- so referred". had utterly transformed "We want the law tt) ( At present about one "The Prime Minister, tion of the breakdown of the universities and cre- Mr. Whitlam, has removmarriage", Father Hickey a month are processed support marriage and ated the colleges of ad- ed any per capita 'ceiling' our principal concern in Perth courts). said. vanced education. He had ( currently $104 per sec"When a married per- ought to be that at preThe present operation no doubt that it would ondary private school VATICAN CITY ( NC ).—Pope Paul, complainson in difficulty appro- sent it is not doing so". transform the schools, pupil, for instance) and ing that the name of God seemed to have been of the law only indicated the number of people State and private. the Interim Schools Com- banished from civil society, recalled that the SoThe Interim Schools mittee is free to recom- viet writer and Nobel Prize winner Aleksander who could afford to terminate their marriages Committee consisted of mend grants greater than Solzhenitsyn had been forbidden to write the name by divorce. such experts and four of that." of god with an initial capital letter. them had associations He said that he was The Minister pointed with the private sector two out that none of the comhave no need of God; re- concerned about mentioning Without of education. that people mentators whose views Solzhenitsyn or the Sov- ligion is useless and ac- things "The initial actions of the critic wishes him to iet Union by name, the complishes nothing; it should not be subjected my ministry," Mr. Beaz- study was bold enough to Pope told a general aud- even constitutes a brake, to indignities and that ley added, "have been say what they were ac- ience last week: an unnecessary and para- there was a recurring directed to meeting need tually advocating, namebreakdown of marriage. well known French lysing embarrassment." "A — the needs of Aboriginal ly, that a school whose He said that in his view review, informs us recentPope Paul said that he Children, children of the annual fees were $30 (and there was a need for a in imposed the ban ly of would not like to think Never-Never, kindergar- resources desperate acmuch wider legal supten teacher trainees, for cordingly) should have a certain country, which young people were leanport for marriage. itstance, and libraries of the same per capita grant even has great religious ing that direction. "The present divorce traditions, upon writing colleges of advanced edu- ( continued on page 7) the name of God with a "How many people procedure is as much a capital letter. We've ar- think like that? Is it true remedy for a breakdown — but we wouldn't like in marriage as bankruptrived at this today." to think so — that youth cy is a remedy for misThe Vatican Press of- the new generation, is management of business fice said that the periodi- orienting itself toward affairs", he said. cal Pope Paul referred to this facile and victorious "The two aspects - the was the January issue of irreligion?" breakdown and the even"Reuve des Deux Mondes (Review of the Two The Pope did not ans- tual divorce - are very Worlds." wer his own question. different because they But he did observe that happen at different times Solzhenitsyn has com- the absence of God from and often with a long that plained publicly the thoughts and words interval in between". Soviet censors would not of men Pointing to specific le"afflicts us deeplet him capitalize God's ly, and gives us the deso- gal support that could USUALLY COME BACK FOR name. PERTH. 84 BEAUFORT STREET late impression of an ana- be provided for marriaA NOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER SUBIACO. 122 ROKEBY ROAD ge, Father Hickey said chronistic solitude." According to Pope LEEDERVILLE. 148 OXFORD STREET that the present seven Paul, the A ND ANOTHER . . absence of God CLAREMONT. 40 BAY VIEW TERRACE day notice period that "seems to characterise the law required before CANNING BRIDGE. 906 CANNING HIGHWAY current history and civimarriage was for too FREMANTLE. 25 ADELAIDE STREET lisation." ON INSIDE PAGES short. WILLAGEE. 86 ARCHIBALD STREET He added: "Have some "All studies of marriaHEAD OFFICE 4 ge breakdown reveal that representatives of mod- C alendar ern man become enemies a lot of couples simply even of the holy and ine- Chi ldren's did not get to know each ffable name of God? B irthdays ... 9 other before marriage", he added. "This is only the exBUILDING SOCIETY HOUSE Classified "Recently it was retreme and outward as297-305 MURRAY STREET, PERTH, W.A. 6000. 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