Media hub

A dedicated hub compiling reports, articles, and podcasts that reveal the injustices of the child support system, supported by comprehensive research and data.

Financial abuse: the weaponisation of child support in Australia

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Social support payment systems may be reviewed as DV commissioner warns they are being ‘weaponised’ against women

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Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Child Poverty in Australia in 2024: The lifelong impacts of financial deprivation and poor-quality housing on child development, August 2024.

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Parents failing to submit tax returns are skewing child support payments

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New report reveals how Australia’s child support system facilitates economic abuse of women

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Rethinking Primary Prevention

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We won’t stop violence against women with conversations about respect. This is not working. We need to get real

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The child support payment system is outdated and not fit for modern parenting, according to critics

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Child support debt owed to single parents creates stress for children

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Preventable Poverty

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Dad – your choice hurts me

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Dads choice to withhold child support is preventable poverty

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Poverty in Australia 2023: Who is affected?

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Child support failure costs children and Budget

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Child support dodgers: ‘make them file a tax return’

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Child poverty: Tighten tax system to target child support avoidance, single parents say

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The declining wellbeing of single parents in Australia in the 21st century

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Debts and disappointment: Mother’s experiences of the child support system

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The potential of child support to reduce lone mother poverty: Comparing population survey data in Australia and the UK

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