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NEW Issue Analysis 102
Million Dollar Babies: Paid Parental Leave and Family Policy Reform
Paid parental leave has become an important symbolic issue for many women, and support for its introduction has been so vocal that rather than being a means to an end, paid parental leave has become the end itself. A more fair and efficient support for parents would be to reform the existing tax and family benfits system, rather than introduce paid parental leave on top.
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NEW Issue Analysis 101
China’s Insecurity and Search for Power
John Lee
China feels strategically vulnerable and is working to strengthen its power and influence in the region. China's insecurity has led its policymakers to a series of strategies designed to allow China to build greater productive capacity in order to further its mission: to return China to greatness. [read more]

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18 November
Tax reform should take priority over paid parental leaves says Jessica Brown in The Australian

 
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