When a State Budget is announced, it can feel like a flood of numbers, political jargon, and headlines that don’t really answer the question single mother families are asking: “How will this help me?” For single mothers already stretching every dollar, rising living...
By Jenny Davidson, CEO CSMC Often, when there's an economic or global crisis, the first members of the community to be effected are those with the least buffer. We saw that at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, when casual workers were losing their jobs and access...
It's news that is currently short on specifics but could have significant impacts on single mothers: sweeping reform package targeting the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) could see more than 160,000 people removed from the program, as the Federal...
A new study has revealed the scale of an emerging form of financial harm, commonly known as “Fembot Debt,” where systemic processes are being used in ways that disadvantage single mothers and their children. The research by Swinburne University of Technology shows the...