Family Matters article Sep 1995
British Child Support Act in practice
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.
Family Matters article Aug 1992
This article draws on house price data for the period 1974 to 1990 in each local government area in the Melbourne Statistical District, and asks whether house price increases simply reflect inflation, or if families who are home owners and buyers gain in wealth through their home ownership.
Family Matters article Apr 2008
In this article, the authors describe the labour force status of carers who receive an Australian Government payment directed to carers, with a particular focus on the degree to which non-employed carers want to be in paid employment.
Family Matters article Sep 1997
This article looks at changes to the Child Support Scheme. Aspects of the child support debate have centred on what was considered to be the unfair demands for financial support from non resident parents.
Research report May 1985
Draws attention to inadequacy of support, inequitable trends in the current tax- transfer system, inappropriate arrangements under current structures
Short article Oct 2017
This article examines the role of homelessness in the link between child maltreatment and youth offending.
Family Matters article Sep 1999
This article presents results from a recent UNICEF study of patterns of child poverty across the industrialised world.
Family Matters article Apr 1994
In the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this article looks critically at the attitudes of Australians to the payment of child maintenance and the introduction of the Child Support Scheme.
Family Matters article Sep 2000
Family Matters article May 2010
Family Matters article on economic consequences for single-parent families of child support and Welfare to Work reforms