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20 Jun 03:40pm

Filed under: Election 2010, Maternity Leave, Mothers, Tony Abbott, Warren Truss

It’s not often that Warren Truss gets much of a look in. In spite of the small detail that if Tony Abbott wins the election Truss will be the deputy prime minister, the Nationals leader isn’t exactly high profile on the mainstream radar.

Could this man hold the answer to the Mummy wars?

But this weekend the erstwhile half of the Coalition agreement pulled his leader up on the promise to introduce a wildly generous and inequitable paid maternity leave scheme - sort of.

I’ve written before that Tony Abbott’s plan to tax (sorry, levy) our biggest companies to pay for a scheme that would see women on $150,000 paid $75,000 when they had a baby, was only going to deepen the irrational battle going on between women over how they choose to raise their children.

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Christian Real says:

06:50pm | 21/06/10

Wayne Fehlhaber Perhaps you are working too hard for that Nation party Fraser Coast Regional Councillor, as a Ghost writer Wayne, because nothing was said of mentioned in my comments about ‘Council matters”, your reply is certainly weird. The matters and issues were taken to Warren Truss’s office because they… Read more »
Wayne Fehlhaber says:

05:57pm | 21/06/10

Christian Real : well , Christian you should have taken those Council matters to the Tavistok St. Council Offices. It’s quite simple really . State matters to the state members office . Federal matters to the Federal members office. Council matters to the Council office. Read more »

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