Parental Child Abduction

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Information from the Australian Government, Attorney General's Department

• International Family Law & Children
• Seeking Access to a Child Overseas
• Information for responding Parents
• Questions about International Child Abduction and Access
• Returning your Child to Australia
• International Child Protection
• Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Registration of Overseas Orders
• Support and Assistance

Australian Federal Police

Airport Watch: 131 AFP is the single direct line to the AFP National Operations State Service Centre.

Website: www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/our-work-airports/airport-watch

Australian Passport Information Service

Phone: 131 232 – 8 am to 8 pm Monday to Friday, and 8.30 am to 5pm weekends and most public

holidays (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Website: www.passports.gov.au

Applying for a Recovery Order 

If your child (or children) normally lives with you and their other  parent (or another person) has your child and is refusing to return them  to you; or you have parenting orders, and the other party is preventing  your child from living with your or spending time with you in accordance with those orders, you may be able to apply for a recovery order.

If you do not know where your child is, you can also apply for orders  to help you to find them (called a Commonwealth information order) when you apply for recovery orders.

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia