Australian law's regarding childrens rights should change

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My daughter is 14. 18 months ago she moved from the country to stay with her dad for schooling as it was becoming too hard to travel an hour and a half each day on the bus for school. We agreed I kept custody and she would return on holidays. That hasnt happened. Instead her fathers family keep telling her she is old enough to make her own choice about life and have done so since she was 12. She was supposed to come home at xmas, my ex kept saying she's got the flu and doesnt want to stay with you, so my parents drove 5 hours to collect her. When they saw my daughter they rang me immediately and said she was extremely sick and needed to go to hospital. They drove her 5 hours back to me, I took one look and knew she had tonsilitus. I rushed her to the hospital where I was told she could have been dead within 48hours. Once my daughter was well she went to stay half an hour away at her aunties for a week or so. But the day before I was supposed to pick her up I got a phone call from my ex's aunty telling me not to bother picking her up she had been returned to her father. This was confirmed when ringing my daughters mobile. She told me she didnt want to be with him and was being perssured to stay, she is scared of him. I rang the police, I rang 7 welfare agencies, I rang everywhere. No one would help all they would say is she's 14 and old enough to do what she wants. I eventualy got to see a lawyer. And the same thing, she's old enough to make her own choice. Now what I dont understand is, Im responsible for her actions and health and allother expenses until she is 18, so why cant I go and get her now. Afterall I do have custody. But no one will help her or me.