Recent reports

• 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)
• Navigating Turbulence: CSMC’s 2023 report on largest survey of single mothers (condensed version here)

Earlier reports

• 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)