http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-changes-to-the-parenting-payment.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:13 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14910909?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:21:08 UTC 14910909 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14528080?utm_medium=rss The role of a parent is the hardest job in the world . As a single woman trying to play the roles of both mum and dad is challenging enough without extra pressure financially to add to an already difficult task. The trauma u go thru as a family in a relationship breakdown is enormous in all aspects of life the everyday and long term effects are enormous, to say that these families no longer need support because of an eightth birthday is ludacrous. As a single mother the a loneness & fear I feel from ms carr's decisions in these matters affecting our payments & our future as a woman I cannot understand where she can fathom that we dont need parent support past age eight. They are babies who need there only parent available both emotionally & physically which will not happen if parents are forced into to much work too soon. The age is too low I pray she would reconsider her decision. It the toughest job in the world TO DO PROPERLY half measures dont wrk. Our children must come first they hold the keys to our future. As a nation I hope to grow & expand & show the world how aussies are first class but it will not happen if we dont get raising children right with all resources available

]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:41:17 UTC 14528080 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14335656?utm_medium=rss My child is 9... I receive no maintinence as her father is an..... When my child turned 3 months I was back at work and have steadily worked 35 hours ever since. I have no family support what so ever. For years I have saved every penny and just recently entered into buying a little home with a friend as it was a lot cheaper to do this, share the mortgage and have only one set of shared bills.This has worked out cheaper than renting on my own. I ought I was working hard in the work force and hard at home being a sole provider and parent. I thought buying this house was creating a future for my child, I thought that with our stability now in the home and job wise I would be now able to also study via correspondence to get a better paying job as cleaning is a very low weekly wage and money is always very tight. Now I have no choice but to sell the house, I can't afford to study and would you believe after 4 years my cleaning hours have been cut to make way for refugee people because my employer gets paid to take them on board! I cannot afford to rent that's why I did what I did and bought with another person to keep costs down..the house is near sold and we have nowhere to go.

]]> Fri, 4 Jan 2013 06:40:26 UTC 14335656 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14300359?utm_medium=rss The changes are being implemented with such a haste without being fully reviewed is yet another sign how out of touch this present government is and how poorly it has managed the economy and stuffed up the budget!

]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:29:27 UTC 14300359 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14286839?utm_medium=rss I currently work 30 hours per week and have to put in about $75 towards fuel in order to get to work. When they propose to transfer me to Newstart when my daughter turns 8 I am really unsure how I will afford to get to work in order to keep my job. Doesn't make sense. I understand about encouraging single parents to work but I have always worked in some capacity even when partnered.

]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:57:12 UTC 14286839 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14203048?utm_medium=rss Like all parents, single parents have financial obligations as well ie housing leases, mortgages, car payments, credit cards etc. How are these single parent families suppose to meet the terms of these legally binding contracts? People will lose their homes due to this change of legislation :( and the only winners will be the bankers.

]]> Sat, 8 Dec 2012 04:41:36 UTC 14203048 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14162788?utm_medium=rss The effect of these changes will result in plunging us into poverty and compromising the health and well being of our children

]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:58:21 UTC 14162788 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14113710?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:57:17 UTC 14113710 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14100122?utm_medium=rss Am studying for the next six month, so am relient on the parenting payment until I begin work.

]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:55:42 UTC 14100122 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14082773?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:05:46 UTC 14082773 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14082732?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:56:30 UTC 14082732 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14076133?utm_medium=rss I'm a single parent of a 10 year old daughter. I have for the past 7 years worked 35 hours per week. I have a shared mortgage of which I pay less than rent on. My friend and I will now have to sell the house. We will not make anything on it and I will have to enter the rental market and pay even more in rent than i was on the mortgage. It does not make sense! I end up losing everything I've worked so hard to achieve. My daughter loses her home and will now be a victim of forced poverty. I cannot leave my child at night time and get a second job, as suggested to me by Centrelink. I will now be paying more in rent and more in utilities as I can't share them with my house mate. I will not be able to make ends meet as I am a mere $40 over the threshold to be able to receive the new start payment. I'm at my wits end and don't know how we will survive. We are not single people looking for work, so many thousands of us are single PARENTS already working, trying to survive in a bad economy with jobs being scarce and rising living costs. We are already skating on thin ice. I stand to lose $200 per fortnight. Is there not one shr of morality out of all of the labor party MP's. Shame on you

]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:07:59 UTC 14076133 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14074175?utm_medium=rss I am a working mum with an ex-partner that just doesnt pay on time. I put a roof over my daughters head and i cover her childcare costs. I can't afford to have more money taken from me. The Government should focus on being firmer on parents that don't financially support their children. Then everyone wins!

]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:33:43 UTC 14074175 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14048089?utm_medium=rss Single parents who are already struggling will be in a desperate situation with these 'changes'.

]]> Tue, 6 Nov 2012 02:51:58 UTC 14048089 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14039882?utm_medium=rss I am a single mother who goes to work 5 nights a week..I struggle every week still as I have a mortgage with extra expenses...Let alone I have my children looked after in childcare over night and alreadythat has to be cut to 2 consecative nights sot he carers get a break... With my payments cut i could loose my house as i have to work but i cant put my kids into care and pay around 200 per ftn they will have to stay home where is the safety in that...Please re think and look at what you are doing to australia especially the part time working single parent.. You are putting us further into poverty and that is not right I pay for some of my payment as does others by working it may not be much but its more than some Why dont they get rid of the baby bonus that will stop teenage pregnancy as i believe we shouldn't be paid to have children we have them because we want to and we get 10 mths to get all the items needed together...really disappointed I thought that a female in government would be good...well i was wrong

]]> Sun, 4 Nov 2012 03:59:54 UTC 14039882 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14017233?utm_medium=rss Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:09:48 UTC 14017233 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14016357?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:56:44 UTC 14016357 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14011992?utm_medium=rss The Labor party dispursed money to combat GFS and now they hurt low income earners and single parents.

]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:57:54 UTC 14011992 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14004695?utm_medium=rss How unfair to think I'm doing all the right things working 48 hrs a fortnight and studying, but the government wants to punish me by taking away the single parent pension. I'm going to be $ 300 worse of a fortnight, that's a huge wack on the mortgage or we won't eat or drive as that's my food budget/petrol. How will we survive? My son has aspergers and needs appointments and routine but I won't even be able to take him to appointments as I won't be able to afford them! This is so unfair your punishing the working poor!

]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:29:15 UTC 14004695 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14001514?utm_medium=rss Single parents need this payment it almost impossible to live and rent in sydney without it on your own. especially when you have no help from either the father or mother that has left

]]> Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:57:32 UTC 14001514 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13999541?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:00:22 UTC 13999541 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13999146?utm_medium=rss I think its appauling that Julia Gillard would even consider taking the single parents pension away. Single parents need more help than families as they are already doing it tough on their own.

]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:44:01 UTC 13999146 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13995329?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:10:19 UTC 13995329 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13990205?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:14:48 UTC 13990205 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13988449?utm_medium=rss I am not single nor a parent but find this terrible that the government would try to take a single parents assistance away. Why not stop throwing our money away to useless people & causes (dole bludgers, illegal immigrants, UN security council, various political parties) & help our struggling families & hard working single parents! Most single mothers & fathers (or families) just want to do the best for their kids and the best doesn't come free!

]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:28:13 UTC 13988449 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13988310?utm_medium=rss JULIA GILLARD YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SINGLE PARENTS GO THROUGH - NOT ALL OF US CHOOSE TO BE SINGLE PARENTS EITHER !! TAKE IT OFF THE DOLE BLUDGERS SPENDING THEIR MONEY ON DRUGS & ALCOHOL !!!!! NOT US MUMS TRYING TO GIVE OUR KIDS THE BEST WE CAN

]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:00:31 UTC 13988310 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13988209?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:37:06 UTC 13988209 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13985036?utm_medium=rss I am a MARRIED MOTHER of two school-age children (not a single parent) BUT...... I think it's disgusting targeting single parents to pay back the debt our politions (labour) created! How can you possibly expect single parents to survive on the Newstart allowance - appalling even to put them in that category - they are SINGLE PARENTS!!!!! The govt. wants them to return to work with small (8 yrs) children BUT - where are all the jobs? The ideal would be part-time, school-hour jobs - good luck with that! And - who looks after/pays for the childcare when they're at work? Who takes the kids to their after-school activities? What ever happened to being a hands-on parent for your child? OR - do you seriously expect single parents to work full-time just because their child is now at school? HOW RIDICULOUS!!!! These poor kids already suffer enough just by only having one or divided parenting. The least they deserve is to have their parent there for them. Single parents are already doing it tough on the small amount they receive as it is - how will they survive on less? The cost of living keeps going up - they cannot survive on this amount! - THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN!

]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:28:41 UTC 13985036 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13971114?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:07:22 UTC 13971114 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13956916?utm_medium=rss I have worked full time since I was 16 - paid my taxes but am now being bullied for having children and becoming single - struggling with two children pay for school fees, petrol, electricity etc etc etc. Being retrenched twice in two years does not help! and neither does this decision. Cut the cost of living expenses and maybe I can afford to keep my house - but looks like I will be selling and going back to the rental merry-go-round. All my hard work - gone!!!

]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:19:26 UTC 13956916 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13952659?utm_medium=rss 8 year olds are not old enough to look after themselves while there parent works to put food on the table!

]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:38:42 UTC 13952659 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13952610?utm_medium=rss I am a married Mum, but I see how friends who are single parents struggle to keep their kids, fed with healthy foods, clothed and housed. If reducing their payments adds more stress then that affects their parenting ability and thus their kids health and happiness. It has many repercussions. I would like to see these families looked after, in turn making a happier, society for everyone to live in. This is not a fair deal for them or our society.

]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:23:34 UTC 13952610 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13952531?utm_medium=rss Single parents need parenting payment in order to survive. Parenting payment does not even cover the basic costs of living. With rent and the basic costs of living being so high.
The children of these families need this support in order to try and maintain and roof of their head, food, heating and educational needs. Most parenting payment pensioners of school age children are already engaged in part time or casual employment or continue to look for it. Newstart is not enough for families to survive on. Enforcing these parents to look for full time work will not help all these parents get full time work. There's not enough jobs out there to go around as it is. Reducing income support for parents to increase get further educated also hinders people gaining employment. Taking away concession veichle registration and amenties will make it impossible to keep a car on the road. And keep children warm in winter. Making sole parents look for full time work will create neglected children. Before and After school care is not available everywhere costs money,and is not always the choice of parent & child to be enforced to use. Your surplus is taking from some of Australia's most vunerable.

]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:56:51 UTC 13952531 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13946210?utm_medium=rss labor has lost my vote forever

]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:14:15 UTC 13946210 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13918695?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:37:31 UTC 13918695 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13916565?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:32:19 UTC 13916565 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13913751?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:32:32 UTC 13913751 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13912578?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:59:48 UTC 13912578