A new report has revealed that the Australian child support system isn't working for single mothers - and it actually supports and perpetrates financial abuse. Opening the black box of child support: Shining a light on how financial abuse is perpetrated (Kay Cook,...
Content warning: this article contains discussion of child sexual abuse. The number of reports of child-on-child sexual abuse - that is, abuse perpetrated on a child by another child - has now overtaken the number of reports of adult-child sexual abuse, according to a...
On Friday, CSMC spoke to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs' inquiry into family violence orders. The Federal Government hearings were established to investigate how to provide better access for victim-survivors in the family law system, Family...
When Fatima and her children fled a domestic violence situation in the middle of the night they had only the clothes they were wearing. In the days following, she discovered she was unable to apply for Centrelink payments or even set up a bank account because she had...