Daily media round-up: Tony Abbott sure knows how to get the nation talking: his controversial paid parental leave plan has given birth to a 10-pound screaming, crying bundle of red-faced commentary and debate.
Paid parental leave
In defence of Tony Abbott… sort of
Leaving the politics of it all aside for a moment, isn’t anyone just pleased to see the issue of paid parental leave at least being put back on the political agenda? asks Melissa Sweet.
Tony Abbott’s great big new tax
Tony Abbott’s parental leave proposal would slug businesses to the tune of $2.7 billion a year — making the cost of the CPRS on business look like chump change.
Abbott overcompensates and big business pays the price
It’s not a good idea to act as if your opponents are right. But Tony Abbott has decided he needs a big policy to fix his problem with women voters and his eggs are in the paid parental leave basket.
Abbott’s new nanny state
Tony Abbott has pitched the idea of six months’ paid parental leave. Business, unions and even his own colleagues have slammed (and mocked) the plan. But will it be a winner with Rudd’s “working families”?
Why is Australia dragging the chain on tackling health inequality?
Australian policy makers could learn a thing or two from a landmark report aimed at tackling inequalities in health that was released in the UK yesterday, writes Melissa Sweet.
Abbott keeping mum on real parental views
Despite his new paid parental scheme, Tony Abbot can’t be trusted as a serious supporter of policies for women to combine parenting and paid work. His recent ‘conversion’ is totally superficial, writes Eva Cox.
2009 budget is oversold and unfair
Yes, there were good bits, but as a social document based on fairness, the 2009 federal budget wasn’t crash hot.
Overintonc: toast, tea and parental leave
Caroline Overington says Wayne Swan’s paid parental leave is not a budget announcement, it’s an election promise.
Paid parental leave, check. Now what about carers?
For the first time the government is prepared to acknowledge a clear unequivocal financial relationship between the workplace and parenting, writes Eva Cox.
Money for nothin’ and parental leave for free
Paid parental leave is a wonderful idea unless, of course, you are one of the suckers who doesn’t actually take parental leave, writes Jessica Brown.
Rundle: a jolly coalition motivational song
Need to motivate your troops? Let Guy Rundle show you how.
