Can someone please direct me to the thread about how ridiculous...

[i-need-a-martini]

...the oppositions maternity/parental leave announcement is?

I mean here must be one right? Cause every time anyone suggests the government spend money, a thread demonising the announcement gets posted.

And every time anyone on here support any policies regarding women (and even more so when we discuss maternity leave), those people get slammed for being leftists and 'labo(u)r luvvies'.

And if there is ever any discussion about 'welfare' of any sort, certain groups seem to be on the verge of spontaneously combusting just thinking that some might get something for nothing.

So I'd like to join that thread to put my 2 cents in. Where is it?  ?:| 

[lakeland27]

Andrew hasn't written anything, so theres nothing to copy.

someone at the ABC says The Australian is going to hound Abbott about it.

[cherry*135]

Under the Coalition's plan, a woman would receive her full wage for 26 weeks, capped at $150,000, including superannuation contributions. The plan - to be funded by a 1.5 per cent levy on about 3300 companies with taxable income of more than $5 million - is far more generous than the Labor policy, which offers 18 weeks' leave at the minimum wage instead.

A. levy. on. companies.? That won't do at all will it? Why do companies have to pay when someone chooses to have a baby]:)

More generous than Labor policy?  Shocking

[donnashuggy]

Everybody that starts threads on the right side is probably earning several hundred thousand dollars per year, they are unlikely to complain!

They would love for everyone to believe so!

It's a waste of time arguing with idiots.

[lakeland27]

i argue with idiots often, am i wasting time ?

[i-need-a-martini]

Oh I see lakeland.

So until some right winged blogger makes comment, all others sit and hide in the hope that no-one notices? 

Can you IMAGINE how quickly their little fat fingers would be tapping their keyboards if it was "Joolya" instead of "Abbortt, Abbortt" making the announcement? Can you IMAGINE the days and weeks of mileage these people would get if it was "Joolya" having a 'disagreement' with her party members?

Lol! :^O

[donnashuggy]

i argue with idiots often, am i wasting time ?

Not if you are having fun I suppose, I have just grown board of it lately, mostly because there are no original words, it would be better to write to the editor of the paper than respond to posts here most of the time.

[cherry*135]

The tough rhetoric on entitlements came as Tony Abbott insisted on the need for bigger parental leave payments, despite sharp criticisms of his policy from his own Liberal allies, who regard the plan as a breach of party philosophy.

After Liberal MP Alex Hawke publicly criticised the policy, business groups stepped up their warnings against the proposed 1.5 per cent levy on big companies to fund parental leave, and experts rejected Coalition claims that the scheme might leave employers better off.

The debate signals the difficulties facing the Coalition as it promises to restrain spending if it wins the September election while planning a new levy on business to fund big new outlays.

Mr Hawke redoubled his effort to scrap or delay the paid parental leave scheme yesterday, calling it an "albatross" around the Coalition's neck because of its generosity and its high cost to business.

West Australian Liberal Dennis Jensen said he was aware of "a number of colleagues" who also had concerns about the policy.

"There hasn't been a detailed policy debate on this issue in the partyroom, but I think that it is one that needs to be had."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/coalition-to-bust-welfare-mentality-after-internal-...

[**meep**]

i argue with idiots often, am i wasting time ?

the onlookers might not be able to tell the difference....that would be the only thing that would concern me, if anything.....

[donnashuggy]

That would be bored, I wasn't trying to be clever ! 😄