What a shame

[crystal**flake]

They're cutting the baby bonus, something that should not have been around in the first place.

Ummmm is this a political thread 😄

[donnashuggy]

Good move, they had a family on a current affair tonight complaining, they look like they eat enough each day to feed a boat full of refugees.

[j*oono]

I think this will be a popular choice in where to make a cut.  I agree with it but I'm glad those that really need some help will still get some.

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

Bugger. I was planning on popping out a couple more. B-)

[catsnknots]

Well the idea of the Baby Bonus was to encourage population growth because of the aging population... so it was not that it was to pay you to have a child but to make it a bit more affordable to buy things that you needed, to encourage you to make a choice that you might have put off for financial reasons... 

BUT.. it just made young kids think that having a baby would be cheap and easy on the dole... 

Won't be a real problem.... 

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

Won't be a real problem.... 

The sales of big screen TVs and iPhones and acrylic nails and spray tans will most certainly be affected. Oh and piercings. Mustn't forget the piercings 😉 Oh and tattoos. Oops, I almost forgot hair extensions.

[catsnknots]

oh.. so I hear that Family Tax Benefit A will go up and you will get $1000 via that method when you have a kid... 

no real change then is it? 

[just_me_karen]

One of the poor outcomes of the baby bonus was a huge increase in the price of baby essentials like cots and prams. I hope, for struggling families, the prices come back down... they probably will after a while because demand will decrease. More babies will have to sleep in boxes.

Somehow the govt will have to find a way to balance the ageing population and future skills shortage. Migration will have to increase?

[donnashuggy]

Mums to be can go to gumtree instead Karen. lol

[catsnknots]

More babies will have to sleep in boxes.

?:|

What babies sleep in boxes?