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...tightening of welfare rules means single mothers are obliged to work when their youngest child turns eight. As Labor's Tanya Plibersek points out, if Australian society chooses to pay mothers -including millionaire mums with 15-year-olds-for the full-time care they give their children, we can't choose only to pay mothers with partners. Or consider the many disincentives to work that have become entrenched in the tax and welfare systems. The withdrawal of certain (means-tested) benefits as income rises leads to high effective marginal tax rates. For some families in the middle-income tiers...
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