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• 9 Mar: Matters of Public Importance: Paid Parental Leave
  Will she get it if she’s self-employed?
• 9 Mar: Matters of Public Importance: Paid Parental Leave
  It would be terrific if the shadow minister were to confirm, in her remarks, that the opposition will be backing this paid parental leave scheme that the government has proposed. Now let us just say that sometime in the future, in years to come, Tony Abbott does become Prime Minister. He would be able at that stage to introduce a different, expanded paid parental leave scheme should he wish...
• 9 Mar: Matters of Public Importance: Paid Parental Leave
  The shadow minister is defending Work Choices because it is actually Liberal Party policy to reintroduce it. We know that. They might change the name, because the name does not poll very well, but they are not going to change the policy, are they? Women working full-time on AWAs took home on average $87.40 less per week than their colleagues working on collective agreements.
• 9 Mar: Matters of Public Importance: Paid Parental Leave
  It was very good, wasn’t it? The former minister over there is very proud of that record. Women working on AWAs in casual jobs earn $94 per week less than women on collective agreements—another proud moment for the Howard Liberal government. Do you remember the examples of AWAs that we had? There were workers at Chili’s Restaurant in Wollongong who had to pay out of their...
• 9 Mar: Matters of Public Importance: Paid Parental Leave
  Oh, the minimum wage is not good enough to pay for people’s rent or mortgage! There are a lot of people who are surviving on the minimum wage, and you fought every increase in the minimum wage when you were in government. Every increase in the minimum wage was opposed by the previous government—and now you are saying it is not enough for people to pay the mortgage or the rent. It...

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