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.

SMFA welcomes landmark inquiry report on financial abuse and child support

  • Media Release

26 November | Economic Abuse Awareness Day (Print – media coverage)

  • Article

8 October 2024 | Fix Child Support campaign launch (Print – media coverage)

  • Article

8 October 2024 | Fix Child Support campaign launch (Radio – media coverage)

  • Radio / Podcast

8 October 2024 | Fix Child Support campaign launch (TV – media coverage)

  • TV / Video

Financial abuse: the weaponisation of child support in Australia

  • Report

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

  • Article

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.

  • Report

Parents failing to submit tax returns are skewing child support payments

  • Article

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

  • Report

Rethinking Primary Prevention

  • Article

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

  • Article

The child support payment system is outdated and not fit for modern parenting, according to critics

  • Article

Child support debt owed to single parents creates stress for children

  • TV / Video

Preventable Poverty

  • TV / Video

Dad – your choice hurts me

  • Article

Dads choice to withhold child support is preventable poverty

  • Article

Poverty in Australia 2023: Who is affected?

  • Report

Child support failure costs children and Budget

  • Media Release

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

  • Radio / Podcast

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

  • Article

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

  • TV / Video

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

  • Report

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

  • Report