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Abbotts paid parental scheme, fact or fiction?
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The baby bonus did increase 'fertility' population which was its aim. Not saying I would support it. It did not sit well with the big swinging *bleeps* of Oz feminism, because it did not fit with their elite middle class careerism.
On the other hand, feminist 'initiatives' (inverted commas because it is all imported from northern Europe) to improve the participation of women in work and in the economy (as they see it) rarely deliver even on the very vague aims/benefits used to justify them. A few feminists blew the gaff by reluctantly admitting that Abbott's PPL was the wet dream of Oz feminists. How DARE Abbott steal a march on them!
There are very few people around who care, but policy should be evidence-based and results obtained should be measured against goals, which should be specific and measurable. That said, it is very difficult to take issue with Abbott's PPL when a whole raft of so-called women friendly conditions have been introduced in the public services and more broadly over the years without any independent examination of whether they even attain the rather fuzzy aims expressed for them in the first place.
The federal public service has had to cull practically every low level production job that could serve as an entry point for ordinary women (or men). That is to pay for the conditions that advantaged the feminist elite, the educated middle class women for whom 'management' jobs are the minimum, and preferably a senior executive leadership status role pronto, one that does not require content knowledge and experience, and can allow them to use their networking, communication and liaison skills.
It isn't only Tony Abbott who has been corralled into adopting policies of feminist group think. Maybe there needs to be some thought as to how Australia can participate economically in its part of the world, and whether it should continue to blindly adopt the feminist social policies being imported from Northern Europe. It is ideology not evidence, practicality and good sense, that drives such policies.