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Week 35: Moving On
Wow, what a week. In the last seven days I've bought a house, panicked about swine flu, finished up in the office and discovered that baby is 2/5 engaged and preparing for arrival. I feel like my head is about to fall off from all the spinning. While I'm very excited that the baby is doing everything she is supposed to do and moving further down...
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Babble Wrap: Welfare Parent Trap
Welfare Parent Trap The Rudd Government’s budget eve promise of paid parental leave is a political rebranding exercise designed to make people feel good. The Australian Alcopop Tax Targets Middle-Aged Women And Teenage Girls The Rudd Government will try to ram its controversial alcopops legislation through both houses of parliament today....
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Paid Maternity Leave
In an historic move, the federal government will commit to paid parental leave from January 2011 for those earning less than $150,000 a year. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan announced the scheme yesterday (Mother's Day) as part of Tuesday's federal budget. It is believed the Government has already drafted legislation for the full 18-week paid ma...
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Planned Change To UK Maternity Leave Give More Time To Fathers
Australian mums stuck with unpaid maternity leave will have to pinch themselves when they read about the U.K.'s proposed changes to their current 9-month, partly paid government guaranteed maternity leave. After complaints that such a long maternity leave shortchanges fathers and potentially makes women of childbearing age less appealing to employe...
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Beware Those Money-Grabbing New Mothers!
The Daily Terror Telegraph is concerned about greedy wage opportunists. No, not those fat cat CEOs making multi-million dollar salaries but 'money hungry mums' who may push for a higher minimum wage if the proposed Paid Maternity Scheme goes ahead. Under the plan, recommended by the Productivity Commission, the parent at home with the child woul...
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Babble Wrap 25.11.08: Govt. Says “We Can’t Afford Paid Maternity Leave”
Welcome to Babble Wrap! We're bringing you headlines and links to parenting and other big stories in the news every weekday. Second Labor minister says we can't afford paid maternity leave Boooo. The paid maternity leave scheme appears to be unlikely to happen with even the minister in charge of the status of women warning it may be put off as t...
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Paid Maternity Leave Backlash
It was a proposal ACTU President Sharan Burrow claimed would have "working women right across Australia... smiling." But, while many working parents and academics alike have echoed Burrow's favourable sentiments, reaction to the Productivity Commission's much-anticipated draft report on paid maternity leave has been far from one-sided. Read more...
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Paid Parental Leave On The Table
The Productivity Commission has released it's long-awaited draft report on paid parental leave — and the news is good. Under the proposed scheme, 18 weeks paid maternity leave would replace the baby bonus for working women, who would receive a flat $543.78-a-week payment of around $11,854 over 18 weeks. Dads and same sex partners also get a s...
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