A GROUP of first-time parents will get help with soaring power bills after the birth of their child as part of a new energy efficiency program…

FAMILIES would spend less time in court and more time in conferences under a new approach to child protection in NSW, Minister for Women Pru Goward says…

VICTORIA Legal Aid gave private lawyers and staff a pay rise of more than $7 million a year before announcing drastic changes to its eligibility guidelines to quell its funding crisis…

AUSTRALIA should legalise commercial surrogacy to stop the exploitation of poor women and protect the children caught up in the booming overseas surrogacy trade, according to the chief federal magistrate…

TWO new judges have been appointed to WA’s Family Court in a bid to ease the backlog of cases. Attorney-General Michael Mischin said the immediate appointments of John Walters, QC, and Susan Duncanson were part of a concerted effort by …..

DISABLED children are more than three times as likely as able-bodied children to be abused or neglected, a new report says…

CENTRELINK estimates reveal 3000 single mothers meant to be put on the dole next January will now be eligible for the more generous Disability Support Pension or the Carers’ Payment…

FOUR hundred thousand families must notify Centrelink in the next month if their child is starting primary school or moving to high school next year so they don’t miss out on the school kids bonus worth up to $820 per child…

FEARS pregnant women may pressure doctors to perform caesareans and inductions early before the baby bonus is slashed to $3000 has prompted a warning to the nation’s obstetricians…

Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…