Is Brisbane the divorce capital?
The Courier Mail reported on the weekend that Brisbane is the divorce capital of Australia, based on the Federal Magistrates Court 2008-2009 Annual Report.
`Celebrity’ demographer, Bernard Salt, was trotted out to attempt to explain the anomaly. Alas, it’s not a particularly interesting story.
The number of divorce applications filed in each city as stated in the article did not take into account that the greater Melbourne and Sydney areas are serviced by 2 registries each (Melbourne and Dandenong and Sydney and Parramatta) while Brisbane has only 1 registry.
If the figures for each of the 2 supporting registries in the southern states are combined: Melbourne/Dandenong (12,373), Sydney/Parramatta (12,251) then it seems Brisbane (9,894) has been crowned unfairly.
