Legal advice for visiting my granddaughter in Australia

I hope the OPs family is not in this position, but none of us know what she may not be telling us.

I think the OP’s ex son in law can’t do anything right in her eyes, her view is reflecting, allegedly, what her daughter’s slant is on the situation.

A six hour drive away ? Come on. There are loads of places to stay in Australia, even in the smallest towns. I just can’t get my head round that because that means a 12 hour round trip. Can you talk to the father and explain that you would like to see the grandchildren and perhaps you could see them at the same time they are staying at his place ? If he is reasonable he should come to some agreement.

If he is reasonable he should come to some agreement

Exactly nanna8. If the child lived in the UK then either parent with parental responsibility can take their child on holiday for up to a month. That is the law here but I don’t know the law in Australia. And indeed many families are are able to come to arrangements perfectly amicably about holidays and the father will take the child away for a holiday and another time the mother will take the child away on holiday. Perfectly reasonably. But this father is exercising control over the mother primarily. Many ex husbands do this and some ex wives do it too.
The best thing this family can do it seems to me, is holiday in the mother’s home town, or very close to it. Then the grandparents can spend time with their daughter and also their grandchild, on the days they’re allowed.

Why a six hour drive? Does your grandchild live on a remote sheep station in the outback with nowhere for you to stay? So you have to stay in the nearest town??? All this sounds very odd.

biglouis the 3 year old lives in NSW and 6 hours away apparently is the seaside that the grandmother was intending to take the infant and their mum to - on holiday.
Obviously there are other places to stay but this seaside is the OP's choice.

I think there are 2 threads accidentally about this.
I suggested somewhere that they go to an area with a riverbeach that isn't so far away. A little one like this will be happy wherever I think.

biglouis

Why a six hour drive? Does your grandchild live on a remote sheep station in the outback with nowhere for you to stay? So you have to stay in the nearest town??? All this sounds very odd.

If they lived on a remote sheep station in the outback it would probably take six hours to get to the nearest town 😁

True Callistemon21 - but in this case we know it's a seaside trip from NSW. This is why I suggested a river beach holiday instead. Closer to home but still watery.

This holiday with granny is not nearly as important as the child establishing her new routine with spending time with her father. The legal system is not a weapon to use to facilitate holidays. What's best for the child is that contact with her father is regular and routine. He is not obligated to compromise on this and it is not the OP's place to ask. Divorce is never convenient, but no one else's wishes outside of this separating family have any place being shared to the soon to be former couple at this time.

why this entitled OP feels that her needs take precedence over the needs of the father and GC is anybody's guess.

Just rent a place closer to where your daughter lives and stop being so selfish