Domestic violence experts criticise Victorian GP who asked whether family court is ‘dangerously goading fathers’

Domestic violence campaigners have criticised the comments of a Wangaratta GP. Photograph: Warodom Changyencham/Getty Images

A doctor who queried whether fathers commit acts of domestic violence because they are dangerously goaded by “terrible decisions by the family court” has drawn fierce criticism from medical colleagues and domestic violence campaigners.

The Wangaratta GP Dr Julian Fidge on Thursday shared an ABC news story on X/Twitter. In the story, the mother of a toddler killed by his father in a suspected murder-suicide expressed her grief at the “evil and cowardly act of violence”.