Mums and bubs


Do stay at home mums deserve special treatment?

Stay-at-home mothers don’t deserve a single cent of maternity leave support beyond what is available through existing welfare arrangements – and even those should be means-tested, writes Bernard Keane.

Labor’s election promise gravy train

They will be working overtime in the Department of Finance from now until election day attempting to come up with a sensible estimate of what all the election promises of the major parties would cost if they turned out to be of the core variety and the necessary legislation actually got through the Senate.