The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court will be combined as part of sweeping changes to the financially and emotionally crippling family law system, in an announcement by the Attorney-General Christian Porter today…

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…

A WOMAN who claimed her partner was her brother has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Government of more than $115,000 in single-parent welfare payments. Nhu Nguyen, 40, was charged with three counts of fraud, committed between 1999 and 2011. …..

Budget pressures have prompted Legal Aid to consider closing two of its metropolitan offices and centralise services at its Perth headquarters…

A HIGH Court ruling has put into doubt thousands of prosecutions against people on welfare who did not tell Centrelink their circumstances had changed…