Senate debates

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010; Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

In Committee

10:50 am

Photo of Steve FieldingSteve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

If no-one else is speaking, I will certainly speak. I will just read out what this amendment on the ‘object of this act’ says. Item (2) says:

Generally, the financial support is provided only to primary carers who have a regular connection to the workforce.

This, again, is my concern about it being connected just to those in the workforce. Stay-at-home mums need to be valued, and now in the ‘object of this act’ you are putting in that it is only for the workforce. Again, I cannot agree with this going in there, for that reason.

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