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Tony’s baby deserves a bright future

The much-maligned PPL is both worthwhile and visionary

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

23 August 2014

9:00 AM

Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme is a prescient policy. Efforts to kill it off, both from within his party and from without, are at best short-sighted, at worst envious.

The demographics of Australia are changing quickly, in line with developments across the Western world, where women are attaining higher levels of education, higher salaries and more powerful careers than ever before.

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