Parents of women with severe disabilities are being forced to take their daughters overseas for hysterectomies after their requests for the procedure were denied in Australia, a leading endocrinologist has told an inquiry into involuntary sterilisation…

ONE of Australia’s top forensic law authorities believes the convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg would walk free from jail if granted a retrial today – because of inaccurate evidence presented at her original trial…

OUTDATED laws are forcing doctors to twist the truth to get abortions for their patients, a study has found…

WA DIVORCES have hit a five-year high, but in the rest of the country fewer married couples are calling it quits…

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…

ADOPTION has dropped to an all-time low, as prospective parents wait up to six years to give a home to a child from Asia…

THE High Court will hear a test case led by Victoria Legal Aid that if successful could help Australians at risk of welfare fraud charges because they have made mistakes in dealing with Centrelink…

DIVORCE has no winners, but who are the biggest losers? Research has found that women are often worse off financially, at least in the short term. But some men will disagree…

VIOLENCE in the home figures in one in seven of Victoria’s most serious crimes, as record levels of intervention orders are putting the court system under pressure…

New figures show growing numbers of single women juggling busy working lives with the intense demands of bringing up children. In 2001 there were 121,400 single women in Australia with a child, working more than 35 hours each week. Jump forward a decade and their numbers have grown dramatically, by 43 per cent. By the time of the 2011 census, there were 173,600 single mothers working full-time hours across Australia…