Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu and Richard Percival explain the impact of the commonwealth government's welfare to work proposals on single parents. Depending upon the level of any earned or other private income, they estimate that a sole parent's incomes will fall by up to about $100 a week immediately after their child turns six

Lyndsay Connors explains how the government's commitment to 'freedom of choice' has caused problems that have manifest themselves in the debate about values in schools and uniforms.