Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

The government supports all working parents and believes they should be entitled to paid leave to spend important bonding time with their newborn or newly adopted child in the early months. Under the revised PPL policy announced in the 2015-16 MYEFO, mothers with employer-paid parental leave would receive a partial payment of government funded paid parental leave up to a combined total of 18 weeks. There are currently around 170,000 recipients of government funded paid parental leave. All costings are based on the fact that any government funded paid parental leave is provided at the national minimum wage, currently set at $672.60 per week.