Selden Society 2025 lecture two—50 years of the Family Law Act

The second Selden Society lecture for 2025, 50 years of the Family Law Act, will be presented by the Hon Mary Finn. 
 
Thursday 26 June 
5.15 for 5.30pm 

This lecture is free to attend. Light refreshments will be served in the Portrait Gallery afterwards. 

If you are unable to attend in person, the lecture will also be livestreamed. Register via Zoom. 

About the lecture 

This lecture will explain broadly the fundamental changes to divorce and matrimonial causes law introduced by the Family Law Act in 1975, and will demonstrate how the many changes to the Act over the past 50 years have transformed family law as much as, if not more than, the original changes introduced in 1975. 

About the speaker 

The Hon Mary Finn worked in private legal practice in England and Brisbane after being admitted to the Queensland Bar in December 1969. She was a research assistant to the first Parliamentary Inquiry into the Family Law Act before working in the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department on amendments to the Family Law Act and the creation of the child support scheme.  

The Hon Finn was appointed a Judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1990 and to the Appeal Division in 1993. She was the Senior Judge and Judge Administrator of that Division from 2004 until her retirement in 2016. She has been a member of the Family Law Council and the Board of the Institute of Family Studies.  

Enquiries 

• Phone 1300 SCLQLD (1300 725 753) 

• Submit an online enquiry at www.sclqld.org.au/contact