FAMILY POLICY: Voters demand equality in childcare maternity payments*

Overwhelmingly, Australians want childcare payments made to all families, and they want all mothers to receive the same amount from the government whey they have a child.Currently, childcare payments are paid only to women with paid jobs who put their children in childcare centres; childcare payments discriminate heavily against mothers who raise their children at home.Furthermore, as of 2011, women already in paid work who take leave to have a child will receive from government coffers 50 per c…

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