Australian Institute of Family Studies


Welcome to the Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse, an information and advisory unit focussed on the enhancement of family relationships across the lifespan.

The Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Attorney-General's Department.

What's New

  • New resources on Trends and statistics and Gambling
  • AFRC Issues No. 4 & AFRC Resource Sheet No. 4
    Family relationships and mental illness: impacts and responses by Elly Robinson, Bryan Rodgers and Peter Butterworth
  • Family Relationships Quarterly No. 10
    Articles include using routine data collection at FRCs to examine the ways in which mothers and fathers utilise services; the interplay between the wellbeing of a sole parent and that of their child(ren); Program Spotlight on the Well Ways and Well Ways Duo programs provided by the Mental Illness Fellowship; trends and statistics article on relationship and parenting skills using data from the General Population of Parents Survey