New report Opening the black box of Child Support: Shining A Light on Financial Abuse out now.

Read the SMFA Media Release.

Read the full report: Opening the Black Box of Child Support.

Select media coverage, 8 October 2024:

News Breakfast (ABC TV) (Facebook - 796 plays) | Michael Rowland & Bridget Brennan interviews Charisse Hay

Guardian (article) Amy Remeikis includes case study Anne (pseudonym)

AAP (article) MSN and Area News Poppy Johnston and Jacob Shteyman, syndicated in Canberra times, SBS News, The Standard, The Border Mail, The Examiner, The Advocate,  

ABC Canberra Radio – Morning show interviews Terese Edwards (9.15am)

ABC - the World Today (Radio) | Kathleen Ferguson interviews Prof Kay Cook, Charisse Hay and Terese Edwards
Women’s Agenda (article) | Dr Marg Rogers

Canberra Times (video) | Senator Larissa Waters speaking at media conference

ABC Drive  (Radio National) | Andy Park interviews Terese Edwards

The Project (article and full TV package) | Charisse Hay and Toni Wren; The Project (TV) – Charisse interview only

Additional radio: 2SM, 96FM Perth & WSFM 101.7

October 9: ABC Radio Brisbane – Afternoon Kate Feeney interviews Terese Edwards.

October 10:The Conversation (article) | Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Ashlea Coen and Marg Rogers also republished in The Australian Today  and Evening Report NZ

2024-25 Budget Response, 15/5/24

Select media coverage:

ABC Life Matters Soaring child poverty in single parent families, 2/9/24

Terese Edwards Opinion, Government activity test keeps single parents out of work and children out of childcare: Time to close this loophole, The Age/SMH, 22/4/24

Dads choice to withhold child support is preventable poverty - Anti-Poverty Week & Single Mother Families Australia, 26/10/23

Independents support restoring Parenting Payment to single mums - Anti-Poverty Week & Single Mother Families Australia, 29/3/23

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"Preventable Poverty," The Project TV, 10, 27/10/23 

Anti-Poverty Week draws attention to unpaid child support – Single Mother Families Australia CEO Terese Edwards, ABC TV News Breakfast 27/10/23

Child support failure costs children and Budget - Anti-Poverty Week & Single Mother Families, 8/8/22

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Child poverty: Tighten tax system to target child support avoidance, single parents say The Age/SMH, 18/8/22

Child support dodgers: 'make them file a tax return' - ABC Radio The World Today, 18/8/22

Child poverty: Julia Gillard committed a terrible wrong. It’s time for Anthony Albanese to right it, The Age/SMH, 4/8/22

Parents receiving the Coronavirus Supplement "dreading" cuts at the end of September - Anti-Poverty Week & National Council for Single Mothers & Their Children, 9/9/20

Select media coverage:

550 Reasons to Smile: Why single mothers are so happy these days — Power to Persuade, 21/7/20

Coronavirus Supplement impact: what $550 really means, Mamamia, 17/7/20