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Personally I’m over the moon about Tony Abbott’s recent suggestion for the Productivity Commission to investigate and cost the viability of the current childcare rebate being extended to cover in-home care. Is it a political stunt aimed at courting female voters as PM, Julia Gillard put it or just a plain common sense approach to childcare [...]
Are you an employer? Hope you are ready for the extra burden and red tape that the Paid Parental scheme will impose on your business? Because unless there are some radical changes very soon the Government will expect you to become one of their Paid Parental Leave pay clerks?
In the 20 years that I have been heading up WNA women have made headway in so many areas and in others there’s so much work to be done. Not sure if you caught the content of a recent survey of head hunters in the UK, it suggests that taking even a few months’ career break for the sake of children can harm a woman’s prospects of winning a top executive job.
Whilst women are continually finding it a struggle to secure childcare places, it seems, according to the Government, they are simply imagining there is an issue. Not sure if you read about it, but late last week the Rudd Government broke its 2007 election promise to build 260 new childcare centres. Apparently the reason behind [...]
The only consistency at the moment seems to be upheaval and change. Women are relaying to me about their unexpected job losses, business closures and the effect the sudden down turn in trade is having on them both business wise and personally. For many the increased emotional strain and constant fear of what the future holds is [...]
Many are often surprised to find out that I am a single mother of two. The youngest, Ms Maddison, (who by the way runs the place) has just turned 11. She’s a born fighter having arrived early at just 28 weeks. As only another mother could understand, running Women’s Network Australia between one hourly feeds [...]