The headline sounded too good to be true: “Australian mums paid $900 a week to help with housework”.
On closer inspection, however, the media release last month was about a new insurance policy for stay-at-home mothers. Suncorp’s new Million Dollar Woman policy offered “Australia’s 2.1 million mums up to $900 a week to pay someone to do their cleaning, cooking, laundry, shopping and child-care if they are injured or fall ill”.
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