That would be a double handout?
I have never understood why I have to contribute to the life choices of other people via tax, medicare, levies et cetera.
Yes, agree about the leave being preferable to lump sum baby bonus, though I'd still prefer that people who wanted to have children should do so on the basis that they are prepared to pay for them and not expect society at large to do so.I think that maternity/paternity leave is fine, if other handouts are stopped eg baby bonus. I would much prefer to see mum and dad have to stay at home, and enjoy their baby as opposed to getting the plasma and putting the baby into daycare from day 2.
And I believe there's another insidious process at work in this also, in that the more the taxpayer picks up the tab for individual choices, the greater the tendency for people to lose any sense of personal responsibility. Ultimately - and we can see this happening already - there exists a sense of entitlement which does not include having to actually do anything on a personal basis.Yes this boggles me too.
All of the sudden everything is everybody elses problem, be it drink-driving, crime, children or in one word RESPONSIBILITY!
Difficult to introduce same sex couples parental leave...what to do...ah that's it, fathers and same sex couples will get two weeks...ha ha, nobody will notice the second bit. Announce it on Fathers Day.But there's more;
"Dads and same-sex couples to receive two weeks' parental leave from January 2013." I suppose this is to appease Penny Wong.
Difficult to introduce same sex couples parental leave...what to do...ah that's it, fathers and same sex couples will get two weeks...ha ha, nobody will notice the second bit. Announce it on Fathers Day.
And like the carbon tax, the main aim is to get it in, then increase it gradually by stealth.
On rolls the social engineering agenda. We've moaned at length about the carbon tax, but there is something far more insidious at work here, as in Julia's post above. Our core values are being undermined, employing very underhanded tactics.
There will be a new poll out tomorrow and if Labor's primary vote is down to 25%, I would say Gillard will be repaced before the next sitting of parliament.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/labor-losing-its-head-20110903-1jrm0.html#ixzz1WvAHteSp
Yes, agree about the leave being preferable to lump sum baby bonus, though I'd still prefer that people who wanted to have children should do so on the basis that they are prepared to pay for them and not expect society at large to do so.
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Thanks sptrawler. I keep picturing Charlie Sheen in the patrol boat, Marlon Brando waiting in the shadows. Even the jungle wanted him gone. Great Coppola movie that, nice sound track too.It is really starting to get serious. This isn't from the Australian. http://www.theage.com.au/national/labor-woeful-on-economic-reform-says-argus-20110905-1jucc.html and this http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...a-youre-breaking-my-heart-20110905-1ju4f.html and this http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...-boat-people-policy-again-20110904-1jsh6.html
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Newspoll has Julia Gillard's personal support hitting a new low of just 23 per cent.
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Bit off topic, but one of the perverse pleasures of an up day on markets is tuning in to Fran and the collective at Radio National, having to annnounce that there's still life in that darned capitalism.
I missed ABC TV 'At Home With Julia' last night, what did people think of it?
As a result of the High Court's decision last week in M70 v Minister for Immigration, 4000 refugees in Malaysia will miss out on entering Australia. It will also reap a political blowback when the public understand the magnitude of how the intent of the Parliament has been subverted in the courts.
The legal quagmire in which the federal government and the courts are stuck could be escaped at a single stroke. The root cause is the United Nations, the majority of whose members are not democracies, and specifically Australia's signature on the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Australia should withdraw from the convention, citing its increasing unworkability, impossibly loose language and unlimited impositions. An entire theatre of ideological lawfare would be laid to waste, and after changes to the Migration Act to pre-empt such lawfare, Australian democracy, security and sovereignty would be strengthened.
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