William John Stapleton

In 2003 the then Prime Minister of Australia John Howard announced an inquiry into family law and joint custody, otherwise known as shared parenting, Family law was the country's single most controversial area of law. It was also the layperson's most common point of interaction with the legal and judicial system. The Family Court had been a source of individual pain and public controversy since its foundation in 1975. The announcement received front page coverage and delighted of...

Refusing to hide, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Alastair Nicholson, scheduled to appear before an inquiry into family law and child support, entered Australia&#39;s Parliament House in Canberra via the front door on the 10th October 2003.<br><br>As Chief Justice of one of the most unpopular courts in the country, Nicholson had become a key figure fuelling discontent with Australia&#39;s political, bureaucratic and judicial wings of government. With millions...

The unique enterprise A Sense Of Place Publishing has just released its newest publication, Bangkok Busted: You Die For Sure. This is a deeply personal story by author William John Stapleton on the fallout after he wrote a book about being robbed, lied to and deceived by one of the city&#39;s go-go boys and the subsequent personal distress and widespread public ridicule he endured.<br><br>Few foreigners are crazy brave or stupidly insane enough to tell their often embarrassing...

Of all the thousands of stories he had written across his lifetime, author and journalist William John Stapleton had never been happier to write the words &quot;The End&quot; than when he completed The Twilight Soi series with the short book &quot;Bangkok Busted: You Go To Jail For Sure&quot;.<br><br>The series began in an anguished state after the author wrote a book detailing the decline of Bangkok&#39;s famous strip of go-go boy bars known as Soi Twilight, a...

With Thailand preparing for the ASEAN Summit of 2015, the welfare of visitors to the so-called Land of Smiles has become a major issue. Every day tourists are bashed, robbed, drugged and murdered; many of these incidents going unreported in the press. <br><br>European, Australian, American and Chinese governments have all warned Thailand that the welfare of their citizens while on Thai soil has become an issue of major concern.<br><br>Not For Publication is the final...

Dads On The Air, often shortened to DOTA, is a community radio program which began in western Sydney in August of 2000 with a small group of extremely disgruntled separated men who had no experience of radio and no resources. The author of Chaos at the Crossroads: The Birth of Dads On The Air, William John Stapleton, worked as a mainstream journalist and was the only one with any media experience.<br><br>The series of short books in the Chaos at the Crossroads series tell the story...

Despite the heat the issue of divorce, separation and the welfare of children had been generating for decades, the Australian Government was slow to address family law reform. While more than a million children were listed with the Child Support Agency, an institution as roundly and profoundly despised as the Family Court itself, politicians were reluctant to move into such an emotionally charged and gendered arena. Finally, with an increasingly large number of disenchanted constituents, the...

The Twilight Soi dwells on the dangers of one of the world&#39;s most beautiful and intoxicating cities, Bangkok. It is named after one of Bangkok&#39;s more infamous small streets, or sois as they are known. <br><br>Soi Twilight runs off the main thoroughfare of Surawong in the centre of Bangkok&#39;s oldest entertainment district Patpong and is known to travelers around the world. It is here where touts from go-go boy bars such as Ocean boys, Bangkok Boys and Classic...