Australia’s Family Court has spent more than $63.8 million expanding its so-called Lighthouse Program, promoted as “world-leading” and “trauma-informed.”

In reality, Lighthouse has become a risk-management business, not a human-centred justice service. It performs accountability instead of enforcing it, measuring image, not impact.

Survivors across Australia describe it as bureaucratic, tokenistic, and dangerous in outcome. FCAN’s investigation reveals how public funding meant for safety has been absorbed into internal staffing, PR, and process while women and children remain unprotected.

Until there is transparent reporting, independent oversight, and genuine survivor participation in reform, programs like Lighthouse will remain costly illusions — bright on paper, but blind to the darkness families are still living in.

📖 Read the full report: The Lighthouse Illusion - A Survivor-Centred Discussion of the FCFCOA’s Lighthouse Program

🖋️ Sign the national petition for a Family Justice and Safety System: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN8427

Because when a Lighthouse stops shining light on truth, it becomes part of the storm.