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It's a 'sh*t show', say public servants. It's going great, says the department.
Pension changes by successive governments have hit some of the poorest Australians the hardest, with single-parent families who rely on welfare up to $6000 worse off over the past decade.
It's almost Sydney Royal Easter Show time again. The show, which runs from Thursday, April 6 to Wednesday April 19, is fun for the whole family, but the costs can burn a hole in the pocket.
The Girl Guides are launching a new set of financial literacy programs for girls and young women.
For eight years, the Zammit twins arrived at work an hour early so they could be home in time to pick their children up from school – freeing their working wives to get them off to school.
How would a four-day working week, or other flexible work offerings, benefit your family?
Ten years ago practically every mother wanted to start a start-up. Everything's changed.
If there is one thing Melissa Gillespie wanted to teach her children it is that they should never give up on their dreams.
One man's creative way of telling his mum "I'm fine", while he travels the world.
Behold, the sexy chest swimsuit. "Make the pool boy say WTF," boasts the Beloved Wear website.
From the "I can't believe I didn't think of that" files comes this simple and cheap hack for travelling with kids.
You've heard of The Big Banana, and the Big Pineapple? Here are a few more of the famous and not so famous big things around Australia.
When you're in the thick of the weekly routine, a weekend away with the family can abstractly seem heavenly. Getting out of the inner city, breathing some different air and traipsing unfamiliar ground sounds so awesome you spend your weekdays dreaming about doing it.
If you want your washing machine to last, ask yourself if you do any of the following.
No matter what size place you're living in, there's a certain point when 'peak chaos' is reached. Maybe you've been too busy to put things in order, or maybe you've just been procrastinating.
A mum has shared her daughter's nightmare experience in a swimming pool while on holiday in the hope that it will save other families from going through the same thing.
Moving is hard work - throw in a couple of kids and the addition of it being interstate and it's monumental.
I really wanted to be the mum that treasured her kids' work. I just didn't realise there would be so bloody much of it.
Despite a decline in rates over the past two decades, children are still being seriously injured by lawnmowers, finds a new study.
Getting kids off screens can feel like a full-time job.
Turning it off is not enough.
Parents are being warned a new Snapchat function could put their children at risk, leaving them exposed to predators.
My kids are currently at me to get a dog. And because I've shown weakness in the guise of saying that I love dogs and would love to get a dog some day, now they harangue me on a daily basis.
There is growing concern we might be too clean for our own good. Dogs to the rescue!
A perfect way to spend $20.
After a long period of living unhappily, we dare to reach for happiness for us and for our kids.
Women are groomed for motherhood, it shouldn't be a surprise that when they realise how hard it is they question their decision.
There's nothing wrong with being nice. And there is definitely nothing wrong with being liked, but often our desire to be both nice and liked leads to our state of busy.
Intermittent fasting and meal replacement shakes are at the core of the new CSIRO diet.
Guilt, time poverty and contaminated leisure are all the lot of mothers.