Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

If no-one else is speaking, I will certainly speak. I will just read out what this amendment on the ‘object of this act’ says. Item (2) says:

Generally, the financial support is provided only to primary carers who have a regular connection to the workforce.

This, again, is my concern about it being connected just to those in the workforce. Stay-at-home mums need to be valued, and now in the ‘object of this act’ you are putting in that it is only for the workforce. Again, I cannot agree with this going in there, for that reason.