News & Views Who is Services Australia protecting with its latest ‘crackdown’? Services Australia’s crackdown on financial abuse is failing mothers while abusive ex-partners exploit the child support system.
Business Check the fine print: New campaign urges Australians to hold providers to account against financial abuse A national campaign is asking Australians: Do your everyday providers make it clear their products are no place for financial abuse?
Business Australia’s finance sector joins forces to disrupt financial abuse Australian banks and finance experts are joining forces to prevent financial services and products being weaponised by perpetrators.
News & Views Four in five women don’t know where to seek support for economic abuse, new data reveals Four in five women don’t know where to go for help with economic abuse, according to new data highlighting a lack of support.
Soapbox Finally, a long-awaited plan for tackling economic abuse Labor’s new plan to tackle economic abuse starts with fixing laws that let systems be misused to trap and hurt women.
Business ‘Doing nothing is no longer an option’: Australians want companies to better protect them from financial abuse Australians believe companies have a responsibility to protect consumers from financial abuse, a hidden form of domestic and family violence.
News & Views $5.7 billion: The crippling toll of financial abuse, one of the most insidious forms of domestic violence Financial abuse is a widespread issue with a direct cost to victims estimated at $5.7 billion, according to a report, tabled in Parliament.
News & Views Almost all domestic violence involves economic abuse. Here’s how we should better protect women More than 90 per cent of domestic violence victim-survivors continue to experience abuse after leaving a violent relationship.
News & Views How the child support system risks women’s physical and mental health A new report has revealed the current child support system risks the physical and mental health of single mothers.
News & Views How child support contributes to financial abuse of single mothers Using the child support system can expose single mothers to post-separation violence. Dr Marg Rogers explain how.
Soapbox Financial abuse is a touchpoint in the fight against domestic violence Financial abuse is often a precursor to more severe forms of violence, writes Zaneta Mascarenhas. The stories are heartbreaking.
Local ‘Sexually transmitted debts’: Australia’s tax system is being weaponised by domestic violence abusers After victim survivors escape the abusive relationship, they are finding tax debts for companies they didn’t know they were signatories to.
