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ARTICLE: A brief history of the CSA - the early days

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8/10/86 Mr Howe (Minister for Social Security) tables a discussion paper on child maintenance by Cabinet Sub-Committee on Maintenance, dated October 1986
HOR speeches 8/10/86
Senate speeches 14/10/86
Senate speeches 16/10/86 part 1
Senate speeches 16/10/86 part 2

9/12/97 Howe presents the Child Support Bill 1987 to the house.
Speech

16/2/88 Second reading of the Child Support Bill 1987
House of Reps debate.
Speeches by Connolly (Lib), Crawford (ALP), Tuckey (Lib), Tickner (ALP), McGauran (NP), Cleeland (ALP), Wilson (Lib), Blanchard (ALP), Cameron (Lib), Harvey (ALP), Blunt (NP), Lavarch (ALP), Sullivan (Lib)

17/2/88 Debate resumed in the House. 3rd reading.
Speeches by Snow (ALP), Ruddock (Lib), Courtice (ALP), Shipton (Lib), Fitzgibbon (ALP), Howe (ALP), Cameron (Lib), Howe (ALP)

Child Support Act 1988 passed.

Parliamentary background paper - The Child Support Scheme 19/10/90

Hansard of estimates committee debate 29/10/92 Bronwyn Bishop gives the ATO a good roasting.

Register of reports from committees of the House of Representatives and Joint Committees (1970-1996)
Government response time as confessed by the government.

Parliamentary speeches in the Senate on the Joint Select Committee report, December 1994.

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