Thank you kindly.
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WTF
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Women big losers in budget.
Its across every news outlets summary of the budget. As far as I can tell on childcare.
To expand on the calculator above, the three amounts are ADDITIVE.
So this means $1080 off now, and come 2024 that will become $1955.
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Think it was Sussan Ley who said women also drive cars - benefitting from road funding ( as they drop the kids off to childcare I suppose.)
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Reportedly older women were among the most on Jobseeker when the pandemic hit. Would be the least likely to have good super and quite a few are renters. Thatâs part of the reason why social housing ( already with long waiting lists) should have been given something in the budget.
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Childcare should be free. Cut those FTB benefits
Get the parents into the workforce and out of the house.
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You better tell Josh then because they are the figures that he given to the ABC and I presume others.
Service industries undeniably heaviest hit. And yes there are high numbers of women who work in them.
My grudge is that childcare hits all those responsible for caring for a youngun. Gender doesnt help.
I got a good mate with kids at childcare age. He lost his job and will be full time caring whilst his wife works. (shes also always been the main breadwinner).
The virtue signalling over childcare being a womanâs problem is a disserviceâŚ
Get better men.
Itâs a womanâs problem if sheâs a single parent.
And if the male is the higher income earner in a two parent family, it is often the case that the man is usually the full time worker. I have had staff with small children whose parents both worked part time, but that is rare and comes at cost.
Some places provide for paternity leave as well as maternity leave, but it is not universal.
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There is child care support for single parents. (and gender isnât important).
I agree with you on norms bigallan. But if the worlds gonna change then its not helpful in highlighting things as womens problems.
These are family problems.
Well, I was helping out a single parent working in a low paying job, no income support from the father. Means tested childcare was at half the standard rate - came to $250 a week for 5 days care in her working hours, After paying rent, utilities and running a car, that was a huge hit on her earnings. An aged care worker without family to help out, ended up going part time as Family Tax B at part time was worth more than working full time. Of course her super dropped.
But she was doing OK full time when the child care was free for a while during the pandemic.
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No income support from the father is the problem statement.
If you earn under 69k, 85% of childcare is subsidised by the government.
. It goes down to 50 percent if you earn 250k. How is her budgeting?
I work with a woman whose kids are back with the father in Brazil. She doesnt send much if any child support.
As to the 85% , if the child is only in care half a day, the rate drops to one quarter ( $25 a day).
Iâve seen the bills, someone earning well under $65k working full time of part time does not get an 85% rebate on child care
The Parent Next Program for a parent with children under school age - which does not require the parent to seek work or be in work - provides free childcare for a certain number of hours a fortnight while the parent studies to prepare for work.
Perhaps Iâve been too exposed to the real life experiences of those on the lower rung of the income scale as well as others.
I am sure its not easy. As I said its more the language and sidelining child care as a womans problem.
Kind of suggests men are incapable of care of a child. Again really bothers me.
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Frydenturdâs fraudulent Budget.
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A problem for some women. A problem for society as a whole. A financially independent woman has more capacity to escape an abusive relationship and to have enough super to pay for her own retirement as the alternative to going on welfare at retirement age.
How is that drawn into whether or not childcare is fully funded though? And even then if it should be a womanâs issue?
Queensland has a by-election Nov 28.
Someone resigned.
McVeigh, Fed member for Groom ( safe LNP seat) resigned for family/health reasons - announced a week or so ago.