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But even if it's at the minimum wage, it's still almost 50% more than the current policy, because the Abbott policy is for 26 weeks, compared to 18 weeks currently. That's a big assumption. Business aren't happy to be paying for this, and they have made their feelings quite clear. Facts...

This might be the best post of all time. The taxpayer goes form paying $557 a week for 18 weeks, to paying a max $1442 a week for 26 weeks, and this is a saving to the taxpayer? And I'm sure those big companies paying extra in tax will pass on any of those costs to the end consumer...

Hey hey hey. We don't allow fancy things like 'statistics' around here. We only allow old school generalisations and rusted on Liberal Party rhetoric. :D

Any way you can justify it to yourself, I suppose. Little govt means less govt interference in people's lives, not 'spending programs from surpluses'. If Labor introduced a health insurance rebate and a 50% childcare rebate, all of you rusted on conservatives would have been squealing...

The discussion wasn't about the timing of the policy announcement. The point was about big govt v little govt. How do you reconcile that the conservative side are supposed to be the little govt side, yet we now have more people than ever receiving some type of welfare because of Howard...

I think you've got your wires crossed Mooze. She wasn't 'deserate' to care for the child, she just wanted to get home Thursday night as opposed to Friday morning. The child's condition worsened as the week went on, so she asked for a pair on Tuesday. She wanted an early minute so she could...

Which party is taking to the election a policy which will see company tax rise, to pay for a very generous maternity leave scheme? Which party when it was last in government introduced policy after policy aimed at giving handouts to middle class families? Sometimes, Aaron, the party...

Really? He's the alternative PM, and will most likely be the PM in four months time, I think he should be able to handle a little scrutiny. All this whinging makes it look like he's got a glass jaw. How do the 'attacks' on Abbott compare to the attacks on Latham when he was leader of the...

Turnbull showed he was poor at playing politics, which proves my point. We don't need people PLAYING politics, doing things like running out of the chamber when a vote is taken. We need people with policy ideas and the intellect to deliver.

They'd still have Peter Garrett.

And then we have his offsider Christopher Pyne, who has been caught out in another lie this morning. He is the worst of the worst. Pyne said they didn't grant a pair because the Labor member said she had a sick 'family member'. Firstly, this makes no sense, and secondly, Warren Entsch wrote...