1: Invitation to make a submission – Inquiry into Australia’s Family Law System | November 1, 2019

I am writing to draw your attention to the inquiry and to invite you or your organisation to make a submission to this inquiry. Submissions are due by 18 December 2019…




2: Big Win for One Nation as new Inquiry into Family Law Announced | August 22, 2017

The Turnbull government is expected to shortly commence the biggest review of the Family Law Act since it was introduced in 1976, amid pressure from Pauline Hanson to address the rights of fathers under the Act…




3: Government to investigate child support system | October 21, 2016

The federal government’s independent auditor has flagged an investigation of the $3.5 billion child support system, a move that could provide further ammunition for Pauline Hanson’s claim that the system is unfair to non-custodial parents…




4: Government spends $500,000 fighting $6000 child support dispute | December 27, 2014

The Department of Human Services has spent more than half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money in legal fees fighting a child support dispute over $6000…




5: Inquiry into Child Support Compromised by Non-Attendance | October 13, 2014

On 27 March 2014, the Minister for Social Services, the Hon Kevin Andrews MP, asked the Parliament to inquire into and report on the Child Support Program…




6: Inquiry to Consider Scrutinising Child Support Spending | October 8, 2014

A Labor MP is pushing for the Federal Government to examine whether separated parents should be forced to provide proof of how they spend their child support payments…




7: Abbott Government Considers Paying Child Support to Single Parents | July 23, 2014

Under new proposals child support would be paid to single parents regardless of whether the other parent contributes..




8: Self-employed dads avoid paying higher child support | July 18, 2014

Fathers who run their own businesses are declaring lower incomes to the Australian Tax Office to avoid paying higher rates of child support, Victoria Legal Aid says. The organisation will discuss its clients’ difficulties in both receiving and paying child …..




9: Govt Inquiry Told of Failings in Australia’s Child Support System | July 13, 2014

In submission to the government’s current Child Support Inquiry, the Commonwealth Ombudsmen has catalogued a series of “systemic problems” in Australia’s child support system…




10: Academic Calls for Taxpayer-Funded Child Support: Inquiry | June 27, 2014

Separated parents should not miss out on child support payments if the other parent fails to pay their way, a Tasmanian academic has urged the federal government’s child support Inquiry…