The weaponisation of the child support system has emerged as a recurrent mechanism for perpetration of financial abuse, with cascading consequences for single mothers and their children. This policy brief outlines systemic flaws in Australia's child support framework and proposes targeted reforms that prioritise women's safety and economic security.

Nearly one in six Australian children are growing up in poverty. This report outlines the current and future impacts of rising rates of financial deprivation on child wellbeing. Key drivers are identified as rising housing and rental costs, slow wage growth compared to living costs, and families on low or fixed incomes falling behind.

This report outlines poverty lines and people in poverty in Australia from 2022–23 data. It examines trends in poverty from 1999 to 2022, and social security payments and poverty lines in 2023. It finds that more than one in seven people in Australia live below the poverty line.

Income apportionment was a long-standing practice of the Australian Government, dating back to the early 1990s, adopted to calculate social security debts. The historical use of income apportionment is now understood to be generally unlawful. This Impact Analysis considers a number of options for resolving historical debts calculated using income apportionment.

The Australian Government has announced a resolution scheme to address millions of potentially miscalculated social security debts resulting from income apportionment. Income apportionment is an unlawful method used to calculate social security debts for payment recipients with employment income prior to December 2020. This paper outlines the Government's response to the issue.