The Net and nothing but the Net

SINGLE mums will receive between $10 and $100 less each week from their former partners after the Child Support Agency sends 1.5 million parents new assessments by the end of this week.

By July 1, about 60 per cent of divorced fathers will pay less under the overhaul of the system.

The lobby group representing single parents is urging the Rudd Government to review rules passed by the Howard government two years ago that drastically changed the system.

FATHERS in coastal regions are the nation’s worst offenders when it comes to shirking child-support payments.

New data shows many parents, most of them fathers living in Queensland’s resort towns have turned their backs on their children.

Child Support Agency statistics show parents in leading tourist destinations including Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach and Palm Beach, on the Gold Coast, and Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, are the least likely to meet their child-support payments.