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Babble Wrap: Tears As Senators Daughter Expelled From Chamber
Seeing her daughter taken from her arms and ejected from Federal Parliament was the most humiliating moment of Sarah Hanson-Young's life, the Australian Greens senator says. SMH Rigid Rules Rile Schools As Education Revolution Complaints Roll In Twentyfour schools have complained to the Rudd government over its $14.7 billion schools infrastruct...
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They Say: Having A Daughter Makes You A Leftie
So blue might be the color most associated with boys. Turns out the blue states can thank their azure hues to the parents of little girls. A conglomeration of studies about to be printed in a social science journal posit that parents' political leanings can be tied to the gender of their children. Notably, they say fathers of girls are more libe...
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Labor Targets Middle-Class Welfare, Screws Working Women
According to an alarming report in yesterday's Australian Financial Review, the Labor government is considering a raft of cutbacks to so-called "middle class welfare" measures introduced by the Howard Government. These include child care rebates, the baby bonus and the Medicare Safety Net. Ironically, the schemes that cost the government the lea...
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Turnbull to Oppose Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has dropped a bombshell this morning by announcing the Coalition would block the Government's new economic stimulus plan. Complaining that 24 hours was not enough notice by the Government to review and vote on the bill, Turnball said the Coalition would block the proposed legislation in both houses. "We know...
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Do You Dig For Victory?
During World War II, the concept of the "victory garden" was introduced by the federal government to encourage people to grow their own food in their backyards, and thus decrease the strain on national commercial food product, allowing that energy to flow to the war effort. One 1940s-era book on the subject told people they'd save money on grocerie...
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Parenting And Politics: How Well Do They Mix?
When I was waiting for my first child's arrival, I made the argument that the parental is political. I was argued down by someone who claimed that when people have kids they get insular and narcissistic, caring only about their little family unit to the exclusion of the rest of the world. I can't agree. I think there are many ways that parenting ra...
Arts & Culture
First Children
In January 2009, we'll have a new crew of presidential children in the White House. Though it's an unelected office, the position of Presidential Child has always been a tricky one. Some have executed their involuntary duties with grace, while others have scandalised the nation. Biggest Creep After James Madison's death, his stepson John, a g...
Insight
Vice Squad
Is it sexist to question a female candidate's fitness for office based on the kind of mother she is? Do the choices made by parents, from pregnancy to childbirth to sex education for teenagers, have any bearing in the political realm? What are "family values," anyway, and who gets to decide? From the moment Republican presidential nominee John M...
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Maxine McKew To “Lift The Bar” On Childcare
First she trounces Johnny, next she fixes childcare. Is there anything Maxine McKew can't do? In the wake of the Mem Fox furore, Parliamentary Secretary McKew has proposed that all new child-care centres be put on "P-plates" for up to two years and the number of babies looked after by any one carer may be reduced from five to three. Read more...
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