Australian courts' $1 million a year paper problem

By Ben Grubb
Updated November 30 2014 - 4:08pm, first published 3:57pm
The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court has a $1 million paper problem. Photo: Jim Rice
The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court has a $1 million paper problem. Photo: Jim Rice
The Federal Circuit Court and Family Court has a lot of documents. Photo: Fairfax Graphics/Mallory Brangan
The Federal Circuit Court and Family Court has a lot of documents. Photo: Fairfax Graphics/Mallory Brangan

If you were to stack every paper document held in the storage facilities of Australia's Federal Circuit Court and Family Court they'd stand about 24 kilometres high. That's 77 times the height of Sydney Tower and 80 times the height of Melbourne's Eureka Tower.

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