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I'm sure that any recipient will like it, my wife included if she was ever to receive it. But most don't need it and there's plenty of other things in more need need of funding.

Okay Hoffy, let me rephrase. In the history of Australian welfare, only the tiniest percentage have enjoyed paid maternity leave. My Mum was a teacher and she didn't get it in the 70s and 80s. Apparently my parents coped without it. My reasoning for not supporting it isn't because I don't...

@cimbom re: Paid maternity leave My opinion is that we've never had paid maternity leave in the past, families have managed around it which simply makes it another form of middle class welfare. I don't agree with the baby bonus and many of the other related items over the last few years...

Thanks Ideo. I look at past governments and in most cases I can see good and bad from both parties even though I've voted one way all of my life. I'm happy to give credit where I believe it's due regardless of which party they're from. I actually believe that a healthy country needs...

Reading both articles from The Age and SMH, they both appear to be saying the same thing (almost verbatim) but essentially coming to different conclusions. An interesting way of sitting on the fence. I think it's been yet another disappointing campaign. I don't want to see middle class...