Socialist? Are you joking?
Fabians are not so overt but the objectives are the same.
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Socialist? Are you joking?
Fabians are not so overt but the objectives are the same.
Correction - The Age is owned by Fairfax, not Murdoch. Cannot change title.
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 either.
Simply put, if you want to have children, you plan for it.
I think a mod can change the title but it depends if they're in the mood.
@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.
Apparently my parents coped without it.
it.
I get ADSL, not ADSL2. It's OK for forums, it's no good for big downloads. Some of my phone app downloads take an hour. Downloading a hi res movie is not achievable. I can't get ADSL2 to my area, which is only just out of Canberra. Private enterprise has not been able to get good Internet so far. There are no plans to update my town.please Don't support australia's NBN
the NBN is **expletive deleted**-poor
It was out-dated when they began to consider it
I get Hugely faster,
for 49$ any number of computers connected at the same time all being used, over fibreoptic cable, with 700+ television channels and phone service, download dvd 4GB/<2 minutes, unlimited download upload free wifi all over the country.
Despite coping without it, I wonder if they would have liked at the time?
My worry is that with paid maternity leave is who will pay?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 benefit from it as oOo suggests, there's lots of government spending that I don't benefit from which I do support. I just see this and most forms as middle class welfare as vote buying. Previous generations have coped without it, the money would be better spent on people who truly do need it.
They have said that it will be paid for by a tax on the big businesses. That would not have lost them any votes. Everybody knows that businesses make heaps of money, right?
This mod was nice enough to change the title, but not nice enough to edi the thread to pretend that the OP had not made any mistake [evilgrin]