Publications
2022 National Surveys of Single Mothers
Annual Reports
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- CSMC Annual Report 2023-2024
- CSMC Annual Report 2022-2023
- CSMC Annual Report 2021-2022
- CSMC Annual Report 2021-2022
- CSMC Annual Report 2020-2021
- CSMC Annual Report 2019-2020
- CSMC Annual Report 2018-2019
- CSMC Annual Report 2017-2018
- CSMC Annual Report 2016-2017
- CSMC Annual Report 2015-2016
- CSMC Annual Report 2014-2015
Reports & Articles
- To Be Seen and Heard: report on young people raised in single mother households
- Restricted, Resilient, Resourceful: Legal help-seeking among single-parent renters (condensed version here)
- Restricted, Resilient, Resourceful: Legal help-seeking among single-parent renters (condensed version here)
- National Council of Single Mothers and their Children Inc., 2017: Gaps and Challenges: Australia’s obligations to eliminate violence against women. January 2017
- Petra Bueskens, 2017: Poverty-traps and pay-gaps: why (single) mothers need basic income (BIEN – Basic Income Earth Network, 21 July 2017)
- Emily Wolfinger, 2014: Australia’s Welfare Discourse and News: Presenting Single Mothers (Global Media Journal Australian edition, Volume 8 Issue 2 -2014)
- Kay Cook, 2013: Child support compliance and tax return non-filing: A feminist analysis (Australian Review of Public Affairs Volume 11, Number 2: June 2013, 43–64)
- Tanya Corrie and Magdalena McGuire, 2013: Economic Abuse: Searching for Solutions (A joint project of Good Shepherd Youth & Family Services and Kildonan Uniting Care, May 2013)
- Jacqui Ng, 2007: Home Truths: Female headed families experiencing the housing crisis (Victoria University, 2007)
- Elizabeth Branigan 2007: ‘Who Pays in the End?’ The Personal and Political Implications of Financial Abuse of Women in Intimate Partner Relationships (Just Policy No. 44, June 2007)
- Terry Larkman, 2006: What do single mothers identify they want from systems and supports to achieve financial security? (A research report prepared for Council of Single Mothers and their Children Inc. October 2006)
- Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu, Richard Percival and Gillian Beer, 2005: Welfare-to-Work Reforms: Impact on Sole Parents (Agenda, Volume 12, Number 3, 2005, pages 195-210).
- Elizabeth Branigan and Shannon Keebaugh, 2005: A Feminist Family Agenda: Putting the Mother Back into Sole Parenting (Just Policy No. 38, December 2005)
Submissions
2024
- CSMC submission National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill August 2024
- CSMC submission Peoples Commission on the Housing Crisis in Australia August 2024
- CSMC submission to the Inquiry on Family Violence Orders in the family law system
- CSMC submission Compulsory Income Management May 2024
- CSMC submission COVID Royal Commission Terms of Reference January 2024
- CSMC submission Next steps in the Family Violence Plan February 2024
- CSMC submission Cost of living March 2024
2023
- CSMC submission Poverty Feb 2023
- CSMC & NCSMC submission Family Law Exposure Draft March 2023
- CSMC submission Early Childhood Education & Care May 2023
- CSMC & SMFA submission Family Law Information Bill May 2023
- CSMC submission Family Law Amendment Bill June 2023
- CSMC submission Inquiry into the rental and housing affordability crisis in Victoria August 2023
- SMFA, CSMC & Prof. Kay Cook submission Family Law Amendment (no2) Bill November 2023
- CSMC submission Developing a Not-for-Profit Sector Development Blueprint December 2023
2022
- CSMC Submission EmploymentWhitePaper Nov 30 2022
- CSMC submission ParentsNextWFA inquiry Nov 2022
- CSMC submission Work and Care 28 Sept 2022
- CSMC submission Disability Royal Commission
2021
- CSMC -Disability Employment Services model_Dec2021
- CSMC Submission regarding the Disability Support Pension July 2021
- Council of Single Mothers Social Housing Reg Review 17 Sept 2021
- CSMC Presentation to Inquiry into Economic Equity for Victorian women 10 August 2021
- CSMC Criminal Justice System Review 23 Sept 2021
- CSMC_Social_Security_Income_Support_Bill_March_2021
- CSMC and CISVIC submission to PJCHR Inquiry into ParentsNext May 2021
2020
- CSMC Submission into Historical Forced Adoption in Victoria – January 2020
- CSMC – Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Homelessness 2020
- CSMC_Submission_Federal_Inquiry_Family_Domestic_Sexual_Violence_July2020
- CSMCSubmission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into HomelessnessJune2020
- CSMC_GovtResponseCOVID19_May2020