Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Government Whip) (13:43): I rise today to raise an issue that I think brings a lot of heartache around Australia, and it is, of course, family breakdown. As members of parliament, we regularly receive people who are dealing with that difficult part of their life, and access to children and property division, but particularly the issue of children. It would be fair for me to say that I get more complaints from men than from women about the current process. I'm very pleased that the government has announced that we are going to have a joint standing committee look at family law reform, following the delivery of the recommendations from the Australian Law Reform Commission in April. I made the remark in the party room that I look at the current law and I think it doesn't look too bad. I don't think it is particularly biased, but it is the application of the law. I think those who deal with this on a daily basis develop opinions and prejudices that are not particularly fair to the new customer coming in through the door. These will be the issues that I believe this inquiry will look at. I think it is overdue. It is 40 years since we have had a decent look at this. There is a lot of pain out there. I don't know whether or not we can fix it all, but I think it is time that we had a look to see what we can do.