Single-parent renters struggle to assert their rental rights due to being time-poor with significant caring responsibilities, amid tough market conditions, reports new research from Tenants Victoria, the state’s peak body for renters. Tenants Victoria identified that...
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How raising the rate of social security could make a lifetime of difference
CSMC and our members and supporters have long campaigned for an increase in the payment rate of social security. Single mothers across Victoria have told their stories, signed petitions, and emailed their Members of Parliament while behind the scenes, CSMC has...
Is the deficit discourse on sole mothers shifting?
Some of you would have heard of Emily Wolfinger, a fabulous academic and single mother, who writes powerfully about single mothers. Emily has contributed a chapter to the newly released book ‘Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity’, where she...
Four Corners’ report into childcare: the questions to ask
It's an episode of Four Corners every single mother with a child in childcare is unlikely to forget in a hurry. Last week, the ABC current affairs program revealed its investigation had exposed that some centres are cutting corners, hiring unqualified staff and...




