Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We are starting to hear interjections from those opposite, who for 12 years refused to deliver paid parental leave. We know that the Leader of the Opposition famously said that paid parental leave would be introduced over his dead body. It is this government that is delivering paid parental leave, and on 1 January it will start.

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