I work full time and I have a husband who also works we have two kids. I don’t have a problem with single parents who are capable of working but stay at home to raise their kids getting government assistance. I would rather it go to them to support their children in a loving home life than a politicians pension.

No one who is capable of working chooses not to work. Its propaganda from the media to blind side you from the top few stealing from us common folk. Humans innately enjoy working and being apart of something.
There are not enough jobs, childcare is too expensive and fulltime childcare is damaging for children's attachment and development. The system is built to keep a poverty line so the people up the top can tell the people in the middle that its the people under the poverty lines fault you're tired and have to work your whole life.

Single Mum of 4, currently unemploed and looking for full time work. In the meantime I get 200 pfn CSand $7 FTB, NO Newstart as I dont meet the criteria apparently, so I have to take any work I can get from cleaning to gardening to babysitting to odd jobs etc to try and have a bit more income. Financially I am struggling immensely with bills mounting.

Single mum of 2. They are 4 and 2 and I'm on the single parent pension and family tax. All up I get about $1400 a fortnight and $16 a fortnight child support because he doesn't work. He doesn't see the kids and moved away so he doesn't have to do anything for them. We live fairly comfortably. I rely on stuff like zip pay to pay for clothes and random expenses so I can gradually pay it off and bills and the rest come out of my payments. I 100% support welfare payments to those who need them and I will be looking at going back to work once youngest starts school. I actually have my old boss ask me when I can start working again every time I see her because she misses me lol.

I recieve around $700 a fortnight in FTB and my husband works full time.
I study and look after my 3 year old at home, plus my older children who are now at school full time.
I would love to return to work part, but my husband and I keep on crunching thr numbers, and we would probably be worse off financially after I factor in daycare, hubbys reduced hours so he can do school pick up, loss of FTB etc.
So I will wait until I've finished studying and my 3 year old is in school full time.
I do sometimes feel guilty receiving FTB, but I figure it is only temporary and I will pay it back in taxes once I'm back at work.
Plus I try and help out at the kids school a lot so I'm hopefully giving back a bit.

I think it’s bull shit stop being lazy

I earn $50,000 , and $10,000ish ftb for 3 kids, and $100 week CS.
I'm doing well, kids are spoiled and I still am able donate a lot of excess money as well.

Partnered mum of 2, not working but studying part time. My partner works full time and studies part time.
We get $29.95 a fortnight of FTB and child subsidy.

I work and study currently. I have never been on any sort of benefit and have been a single mum. I don’t believe you should be allowed a benefit if you are capable of working it’s wrong

4 kids. Hubby works and I get FTB and carers payment. I also study part time so I can go back to work in a few years and I home school

I was working four days a week, but went back to one day as it's not worth it. If they want single mums to work they need to make minimum wage much higher. I work two mornings a week so I can have childcare all day.

No FTB
I worked hard and no partying every weekend
Bought house at 21 ( $180k mortgage ) 9 years ago
Have a 6 week old baby
My husband earns $120k
I will earn $90k when I go back to work in 6 weeks

Single mum of 2 (10 & 12) on new start. Studying atm so hopefully get a job from it. I have been trying to get work for the past 18mths. I receive CS very sporadically and he is not in their life at all, he doesn’t take then over night or help at all. At most he sees them for an hour or 2 every 8 or 12 weeks. It makes finding work that much harder.

With new start I need to do 20 job applications per month ( I do more than that) and have to attend regular meetings with the job provider... that is not very helpful in providing a job.

It really hard financially and my main focus is getting work.

I work 3 jobs with no child support or FTB.

I'm a single mum. My youngest is 6. I dont have a lot of support so it's just me bringing up my children. Dad chooses when to parent but has moved to another state for his gf. I have always worked up until last year when I decided to study to advance my career. I do not work at all at the moment. My children have really benefited from me being home; school drop off, pick up, reading groups, attending school events, after school activities. I am able to do all this because of government benefits. I am very grateful. It's only until I finish my course though and then I will be working fulltime again. My children know that the situation will change then.
Benefits that SP's recieve are not enough for many to want to keep pumping more kids out so they can stay home. Which is fair enough because that's not what the benefits are meant for. I dont feel judged by people for deciding to give up fulltime work for study as a single parent because I have a plan in place.