Web of systems exploited for insidious financial abuse Perpetrators are largely unchecked as they use courts, banks and Centrelink to inflict financial abuse on an intimate partner, research has found. AAP · Jul 1, 2025
Child support debts forcing mums to pursue violent exes Women are being forced to chase their abusive former partners for child support payments by a system anti-violence campaigners say is failing. AAP · Oct 7, 2024
Single parents in Australia are owed $3.7bn in child support. Anne says no leader has been ‘brave enough’ to fix it Anne*, who lived in poverty with her two sons, wrote to Scott Morrison, Alan Tudge and Christian Porter about the unfair system but never heard back The Guardian - AU · Oct 7, 2024
Child support payments are being used as a weapon to financially abuse ex-partners Child support payments are being used by some as a weapon to financially abuse parents, according to a report by Swinburne University. ABC News · Mar 24, 2023