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Career after baby? What career?
You can skirt around the issue of returning-to-work after baby with whatever fancy, politically correct phrases you like, but when it’s reduced down like a Masterchef-style jus, the stress, the negotiation, the juggle and the guilt make the whole process, simply, crap.
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Should you have a third child or not?
I thought our family had been complete with our two boys. I had no idea how much I needed my daughter until she was here.
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Proposed $20 Medicare fee axed
Health minister Sussan Ley has used her first press conference in the role to announce the government will dump planned cuts to GP fees for visits under 10 minutes.
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New $20 GP fee: health charge changes explained
Why are patients facing a new $20 charge for visiting their GP?
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New GP co-payment scheme a triple whammy for patients
Under three new changes to the GP payment plan - one of which has already come into effect - the big losers will be ordinary patients.
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'As a mother I wasn't given a look in': the female funding fiasco
Why are women are often seen by lenders as 'fly-by', rather than serious business owners?
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It's official: the $7 GP co-payment plan has been axed
Days after announcing that his paid parental scheme is undergoing a major overhaul, Tony Abbott has confirmed that the plan to charge patients $7 per doctor's visit has been axed.
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Confusion as Abbott refines paid parental leave scheme
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has moved to water down his paid parental leave scheme amid worries he'll ignore support for stay-at-home mothers in the process.
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The job interview question I always answer with a lie
"What if I get a question about babies?" asked a childless, but clucky younger woman I'm mentoring before a job interview. My response is unequivocal: lie.
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Study: Women with children are most productive at work
A word of encouragement for working mums: a study says you are actually more productive than your childless peers.
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My children's warped sense of work
I’ve wrestled with the 'working from home' thing, and have wondered about the impact it will have on my children’s working lives.
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Paid parental leave scheme grinds to a halt
The future of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme appears to be up in the air, despite the fact it is due to begin in less than nine months.
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Can 'Daughter Water' help close the gender pay gap?
More than 3000 bottles of 'Daughter Water' were yesterday delivered to the desks of chief executives across the country - all in an effort to help equalise pay for men and women.
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