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Government damns taxpayer-funded maternity pay
In a blow for Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward's campaign for a national paid maternity leave scheme, Finance Minister Nick Minchin has labelled paid leave as middle class welfare and suggested it would be too costly to the public purse.
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