Gillard's Decision to End the Single Parenting Payment

In 2006, the Howard government put in place this grandfathering arrangement. People who had been on the payment in July 2006 were allowed to keep it until their youngest child turned 16. That also meant that subsequent siblings were still covered. But then Gillard came in in 2012 and was like, no, we're going to cut you off too. She got rid of that. Around 100,000 parents pushed off the single parenting payment onto Newstart at the time,. which obviously is now a job seeker. At the time, there was vociferous opposition, as you can imagine, from groups like ACOS. There were women outside being like, please don't cut my income so that I

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