<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ae59b94-eae6-462d-ad7a-1b9fb89081eb/EDC04FBE-72BD-4BA6-A4FE-BBF90773B11F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory04n.htm"><P>PAID maternity leave could inadvertently discriminate between working mums and those who choose to stay at home, according to Sophie Mirabella (MHR, Indi).</p> <P>Mrs Mirabella has rejected union calls this week for up to six months’ paid leave for fear it could replace the current baby bonus system.</p> <P>She said the baby bonus, introduced by the former Liberal Government, acted in the same way as paid maternity leave, providing for up to 12 weeks pay at the minimum award rate.</p> <P>But unlike maternity leave, the baby bonus offered financial support to all mothers, Mrs Mirabella said.</p> <P>"<B>I believe we shouldn’t discriminate between women who work and women who don’t,</B>" she said.</p> <P>"<B>There is already enough strain on women who have to make that decision if they want to be a working mum or stay-at-home mum.</B>"</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EDC04FBE-72BD-4BA6-A4FE-BBF90773B11F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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