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About Barbara Holborow
Some people are born crusaders and Barbara Holborow certainly qualifies for the title. All her life she has battled for a better deal for Australia's children. She set up the first free legal aid service for children, let television cameras of 60 Minutes into her Court and struggled to reform a system that she believed didn't help young people in trouble.
Barbara Holborow served for 12 years as a magistrate in the children's court, where her compassion and outspokenness were legendary - perhaps because of her own beginnings. Barbara married young. It was only after the death of her first child and subsequent split with her husband that she found a job as a legal secretary and resumed her high school studies. She went on to study law and started practising as a solicitor, specialising in children's cases.
Her book, Those Tracks on My Face looks closely at the way children are reared - at drugs, child abuse, the effect of violent videos and how important it is to keep young offenders out of the adult criminal system for as long as possible.
Although retired from the bench Barabara continues to lobby for justice for Australia's youth.
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