WA leads nation in divorce rate
WA DIVORCES have hit a five-year high, but in the rest of the country fewer married couples are calling it quits…
WA DIVORCES have hit a five-year high, but in the rest of the country fewer married couples are calling it quits…
THE parents of a boy who was allegedly bashed and sexually abused at school by an older girl are suing South Australian education authorities for failing to provide counselling…
Legal Aid announced the widest-ranging changes to its guidelines in its history last month as it braced itself for a deficit of more than $3.1 million this financial year. The deficit followed unprecedented demand for its services, which has been driven by the Victoria Police and the Baillieu government’s greater focus on preventing family violence…
A PUSH to harmonise adoption laws across the country could see South Australia abolish restrictions that can conceal the identities of birth parents or children…
A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has rejected backbench calls for the Government to reinstate higher welfare payments for single parents…
PARENTS of women with intellectual disabilities are going straight for sterilisation procedures rather than ”existing and viable options” to help control menstruation and contraception, a national Senate inquiry has heard…
Fallen swim star Grant Hackett claims a botched pre-nuptial agreement with pop star wife Candice Alley has left him with financial losses…
PARENTS can expect a back-to-school January cash splash from the Gillard government with payments of up to $820 for every child…
EMOTIONS can run high at Christmas as fractured families attempt to find common ground. Reminds me of something the late comic George Burns said: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”..