There should be a rider to any paid parental leave scheme payments that if the kids turn out to be 'wrong-uns' the government can demand a refund.

Yuyutsu
I didn't think school was compulsory. My local headmaster tells me that they did away with truant officers a few years ago when they discovered that aborigine kids didn't like school and it was embarrassing to arrest them and put them before the courts as delinquents.

Dear Chris,

This news about schools no longer being compulsory is like Manna from heaven!

I didn't have the privilege myself when young: the only reason I went to school, suffered all that bullying there and learned nothing (since I already knew it all), is that I was told that otherwise my mother and my father will be taken to jail.

Now it only remains to be checked whether this news is true.
Cutting on truant officers for aborigine kids is a step forward, but is there evidence of going the whole way, all over Australia and all ethnic groups?

A reference, please, could make my day!

Yuyutsu'
Get it from the horses mouth. Ask your local headmaster, if you can get to him/her that is.
About the bully bit. I think its blown out of proportion. A kid gets a smack in the mouth because someone doesn't like them in their space and that kid is pronounced a bully.
We were taught by our parents (Irish) always fight back and if you can't beat them with your fists then hit them with a iron bar, anything but belt the living daylights out of them. They never come back for more and no one bullies you any more.
Now you will say what if the kid can't fight and I say that's because they are cowards and don't deserve a space in the society.
Imagine if our fathers were all cowards, The Japanese would have walked over us. Cowardice hides behind public sympathy.

Dear Chris,

I will make the necessary enquiries.

Your Spartan values are not appreciated.

Yuyutsu
I don't know where you live but try living where I do in Cairns where there is uncontrollable violence towards older white people from younger (very) black people, where police are outnumbered and outgunned, where no one in their right mind, unless you are a tourist, walks the streets at night, where locking your doors at night is no guarantee of security from home invaders after your car keys, if you did you might realise why you have to stand up to bullies and return their measure.