Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We want a fair system, and what the member for Sydney is suggesting is that public servants should get two lots of paid parental leave from the taxpayer. That is what she is saying—that public servants should get two lots of paid parental leave from the taxpayers of Australia. I tell you what the fairest thing of all is. The fairest thing of all is what the families of Australia told us that they wanted. What they want as their priority right now is a better childcare system, and that is exactly what this government is going to give them and that is exactly what members opposite are opposing. They are opposing a better childcare system so that Commonwealth public servants can get two lots of paid parental leave from the taxpayer. That is what they are doing.

Ms Owens interjecting—

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