Keywords: Paid Parental Leave
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 10 January 2011
3 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader is a woman.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 25 June 2010
25 Comments
The importance of a woman getting the highest political post in the land is not in its being a 'first', but that Gillard is her own woman. She has not turned into an 'honorary bloke'. Gillard's singular attribute is her sincerity and the genuineness of her public conversations. And she can laugh.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 25 June 2010
35 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists
everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing
the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had
time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader
is a woman.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Furtado
- 20 April 2010
30 Comments
There is much to salvage from Howard's policies, misconstrued as
universally liberal and bereft of state intervention in the interests of
the underprivileged. More could be done to link such a policy frame with several
aspects of Catholic Social Teaching.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 March 2010
21 Comments
The Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at Sydney University says Abbott's plan would 'catapult Australia from having no scheme at all to probably being the best scheme in the world'. So why am I, a passionate believer in paid parental leave, not rejoicing?
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 13 May 2009
3 Comments
Rudd Labor's first Budget last year seemed to indicate a turn towards a fairer Australia. After the scripted theatre of pre-budget
leaks, secure lock-ups and dazzling announcements are stripped away,
the 2009–10 Budget indicates we may be waiting for a
long time yet.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 13 January 2009
1 Comment
Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'. (September 2008)
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 10 September 2008
15 Comments
Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'.
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AUSTRALIA
Parenting deserves more than a bonus, it deserves to be exulted and supported in its many and varied forms. With so many women in the workforce a paid maternity leave scheme is the linchpin upon which other 'family-friendly' policies depend.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nicholas Dunstan
- 23 April 2006
Scrapping unfair dismissal laws will leave most Australian workers vulnerable. The effect on society could be profound.
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