Make your mind up, dear

summers mugAnne Summers, 2004: “Since the late 1990s the [Howard] government has made ruthless use of child care, employment, family assistance and taxation policy to steer women with children out of the workforce and into full-time motherhood. It has, via Family Tax Benefit A and the Child Care Benefit, imposed substantial financial penalties on mothers who continue to work.”

Anne Summers, 2014: “ ‘Get thee to a workplace’ was essentially the message to women from Treasurer Joe Hockey in the budget’ … Now they [the Abbott government} are the ones who are abolishing these inducements to be a stay-at-home mum.”

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