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	<title>Crikey &#187; Baby Bonus</title>
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		<title>MYEFO and the twisted politics of illusion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/30/myefo-and-the-twisted-politics-of-illusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/30/myefo-and-the-twisted-politics-of-illusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ratings agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are illusions everywhere in Wayne Swan's MYEFO documents. In effect, the budget will still be in deficit in 2012-13, it's just that enough of it has been tacked onto this year's deficit to get it out of the red.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Picking on disability support, a favourite past time of policymakers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/31/disability-pension-reform-yet-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/31/disability-pension-reform-yet-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability Support Pension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Tax Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Disability Support Pension is a perennial target of reforming politicians. Perhaps they should turn their attention to other forms of welfare.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Addicts sucking on the government teat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/sucking_canberras_teat_can_be_addictive/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/sucking_canberras_teat_can_be_addictive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home buyers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From baby bonuses to first home buyers, it seems we're just standing with our hands out waiting for the government to support us, and they continuously do. Why did we get so lazy? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Taxing at double time to pay for Abbott&#8217;s baby bonus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/taxing-at-double-time-to-pay-for-abbotts-baby-bonus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/taxing-at-double-time-to-pay-for-abbotts-baby-bonus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Millions of Australians will lose from Tony Abbott's idea of taxing profitable companies to pay for his exaggerated version of the baby bonus -- mostly shareholders, which includes nearly every one of the more than 10-plus million working people in this country.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/taxing-at-double-time-to-pay-for-abbotts-baby-bonus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paid parental leave]]></category>

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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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/paid-parental-leave-sets-important-precedent-for-carers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/budget-countdown-incomes-between-a-tax-cut-and-a-hard-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare]]></category>

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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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/budget-countdown-incomes-between-a-tax-cut-and-a-hard-place/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/slashing-middle-class-welfare-will-hurt-women/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The budget, alcopops and Brendan Nelson ... judicial independence ... the US and isolationism ... baby bonus ... Israel ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/19/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/eva-cox-how-the-budget-demonises-rich-women/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/family-tax-benefits-still-a-mass-of-contradictions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/give-the-baby-bonus-to-teachers-instead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/18/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>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bear stearn]]></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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/18/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kyoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Haneef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ donation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israel and Antony Loewenstein ... the Haneef inquiry ... the baby bonus ... organ donation ... McDonalds in hospitals ... Kyoto ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/17/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-5/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/14/time-for-a-baby-bonus-rebirthing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groundhog day bill murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low birth rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surprise surprise]]></category>

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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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