Research and Papers

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Welfare to Work

Welfare to Work: At What Cost to Parenting – Eva Cox and Terry Priest (2008)

Welfare to Work: Creating a new social security exclusion system – Elspeth McInnes (2007)

The Distributional Impact of the Proposed Welfare to Work Reforms upon Sole Parents – NATSEM (2005)

Welfare to Work or Unworkable Welfare? – National Association of Community Legal Centres (2006)

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Family Law

Family Law Act Reform: The potential for screening and risk assessment for family violence. Rochelle Braaf & Clare Sneddon. (2007)

Family Law Dispute Resolution; the implications for victims of violence. Debbie Kirkwood (2006)

Seeing Families Right - National Association of Community Legal Centres (2005)

The Challenges of Securing Human Rights to Safety in Australian Family Law Frameworks - Elspeth McInnes (2004)

Discounting Care: Shared Care and Social Security Policy – Shannon Keebaugh (2003)

Child Support

Report of the population impact of the new child support formula - Department on Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. (2008)

Housing

Home Truths; female headed families experiencing the housing crisis. Jacqui Ng. (2007)

Single Mother Headed Families

One-parent families - Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2007)

A Feminist Family Agenda: Putting the mother back into sole parenting - Liz Branigan and Shannon Keebaugh (2004)

Moving Backwards into the Future – Countering the Attacks on Women: Women’s Equality Off the Agenda - Jane Stanley and Jess Permezel (2005)

The Attitudes of Resident Mothers in Australia to Child-Father Contact – Elspeth McInnes (2006)

Budget 2009 - A summary of the impact on single mothers of the Federal Budget 2009.

Financial Abuse

His Money or Our Money: Financial Abuse of Women in Intimate Partner Relationships - Dr Elizabeth Branigan (2005)