Questions for Larry Anthony over the Child Support Agency and related Death Toll, The Australian, 14 August, 2002.

The direct link between the ruthless bureaucratic harassment of separated fathers by the Australian Child Support Agency remains one of the greatest scandals of Australian public administration. Concerned about the female vote and saddled with an administration bred on cultural Marxism, successive politicians have done nothing about it. This was part of an exercise to establish whether the claim by men's groups that three fathers a day were dying as a result of the CSA was true or false. After almost a year, including FOI requests, it finally emerged that 12 of CSA's clients were dying every day, about 2.5 times what you would expect in a similar aged cohort in the broader community. I had a great deal of trouble interesting the paper in this story, who did not in any way wish to face the ire of the women's movement or be seen to be un-progressive, a bit of a joke for a newspaper regularly lampooned as "right wing". The project eventually morphed into this front page story:

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