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	<title>Crikey &#187; Baby Bonus</title>
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		<title>Paid parental leave, check. Now what about carers?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/paid-parental-leave-sets-important-precedent-for-carers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/paid-parental-leave-sets-important-precedent-for-carers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time the government is prepared to acknowledge a clear unequivocal financial relationship between the workplace and parenting, writes <b>Eva Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget countdown: incomes between a tax cut and a hard place</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/budget-countdown-incomes-between-a-tax-cut-and-a-hard-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia has an unfair, warped and immensely costly approach to incomes policy and the coming budget is the ideal time to start the long process of fixing it.]]></description>
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		<title>Slashing middle class welfare will hurt women</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/slashing-middle-class-welfare-will-hurt-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/slashing-middle-class-welfare-will-hurt-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women's Electoral Lobby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again -- the 'middle class welfare' pink flag is raised to justify cutting payments which essentially go to women, writes <b>Eva Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/19/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/19/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcopops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget, alcopops and Brendan Nelson ... judicial independence ... the US and isolationism ... baby bonus ... Israel ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Eva Cox: How the Budget demonises rich women</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/eva-cox-how-the-budget-demonises-rich-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/eva-cox-how-the-budget-demonises-rich-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 08]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two minor income tests to Family Tax Benefit B and the Baby Bonus have been puffed and discussed as though the recipient were Cruella de Ville, writes <b>Eva Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Family tax benefits still a mass of contradictions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/family-tax-benefits-still-a-mass-of-contradictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/family-tax-benefits-still-a-mass-of-contradictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tinkering around the edges of the existing layer cake system of family benefits will not fix the problem of middle class welfare, writes <b>Jessica Brown</b> of the CIS.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget08 - where's the environment?, professional women and the baby bonus, working families, Gen Y ... the Democrats and Al Gore ... Westpac ...]]></description>
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		<title>Give the Baby Bonus to teachers instead?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/give-the-baby-bonus-to-teachers-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/give-the-baby-bonus-to-teachers-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are approximately a quarter of a million babies born in Australia each year, and approximately a quarter of a million teachers. Is there something we can do with this? wonders <b>Andrew Leigh</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/18/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/18/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed's bail out of Bear Stearns ... organ donation ... Israel ... MacDonalds at hospital ... Rudd and China ... baby bonus ... The Australian:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel and Antony Loewenstein ... the Haneef inquiry ... the baby bonus ... organ donation ... McDonalds in hospitals ... Kyoto ...]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a baby bonus rebirthing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/14/time-for-a-baby-bonus-rebirthing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/14/time-for-a-baby-bonus-rebirthing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At its best, the baby bonus was just a vote buying exercise and a failed one at that, writes <b>Joshua Gans</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>$834: how baby bonus adds up to baby boom</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/834-how-baby-bonus-adds-up-to-baby-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/834-how-baby-bonus-adds-up-to-baby-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever the benefits (if any) of a baby bonus is, like any economic policy, governments need to worry about implementation. People have choices and respond to incentives. What we don’t want is a normal, stable and predictable medical environment being disrupted by arbitrary incentives, writes Joshua Gans.]]></description>
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