You can't claim in online unfortunately - that would be so much easier! There is a form on the ATO website that you can download and print, then you fill it out and either phone your lodgement in or post the form. I did mine by phone yesterday.
We only have DS in school, but with internet and his stationery and the new printer we bought, that brought us up to over the $750 mark, which means we were able to claim the full $375 refund.
You don't need to verify your claim unless they ask you to further down the track - bit like doing your tax each year, you have to keep the records for five years or so just in case they decide to check up on you. But you do have to have children of school age - they check all that up through the family assistance office, which is why only the parent who gets FTB A paid to them can claim it.
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