Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I withdraw. I was referring to the straight talker, the Leader of the Opposition, when he made it painfully clear that he does not support paid parental leave. So what we have got is a paid parental leave scheme, supposedly announced by the Leader of the Opposition, then unannounced today. All this is unfunded, and his truthful attitude was revealed years ago when he said ‘over his dead body’ would there be a paid parental leave scheme. It is painfully clear that what this all adds up to is that the Leader of the Opposition is a risk to the pay and conditions of working women, because he wants to bring back Work Choices and a risk to our paid parental leave scheme which we will deliver for working Australians.

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