Issue 2010 March 06
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FAMILY POLICY: Voters demand equality in childcare maternity payments
Overwhelmingly, Australians want childcare payments made to all families, and they want all mothers to receive the same amount from the government whey they have a child.Currently, childcare payments are paid only to women with paid jobs who put their children in childcare centres; childcare payments discriminate heavily against mothers who raise their children at home.Furthermore, as of 2011, women already in paid…
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Federal, state governments veto northern development
Limping through the first crucial sitting of the Parliament in an election year, members of the Rudd Government are a worried bunch, with marginal seat-holders fearing the worst, and others developing doubts about the capacity of the Prime Minister to lead them over the long term.A Federal Government taskforce has torpedoed the idea of new dams for a northern Australia food-bowl, because the…
