{"id":756242,"date":"2026-06-24T01:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:43:12","slug":"australia-news-live-paid-parental-leave-extended-labor-strikes-tax-deal-with-greens-iran-us-disagree-on-nuclear-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756242\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Paid parental leave extended; Labor strikes tax deal with Greens; Iran-US disagree on nuclear inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has sledged the Coalition and One Nation for their history of opposition to paid parental leave, as the government prepares to extend benefits to new parents from next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always look for ways of doing more to support families when we can. What I\u2019d say is that there is a risk to paid parental leave when you look at the way the Liberals, the Nationals, and One Nation have responded to paid parental leave over the years,\u201d Plibersek told a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ll recall Joe Hockey and Scott Morrison calling mothers rorters and double dippers. You\u2019ll recall Tim Wilson, the current shadow treasurer, saying that it\u2019s not his choice that women have babies, it\u2019s genetic, and you\u2019ll recall that Pauline Hanson, since 2017 has been saying that paid parental leave is a rort,\u201d Plibersek said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said in 2017 that women will just get pregnant to get the money. She said a couple of weeks ago that the women have the equipment, so if they take time off to have a baby, that\u2019s their business, and she said, as recently as her Press Club [address] that paid parental leave is going to send small businesses broke,\u201d she said, arguing it was Labor\u2019s responsibility to protect the benefit from \u201cconservative parties\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paid parental leave is offered to all parents and paid for by the taxpayer. The policy offers 24 weeks of paid leave at the minimum wage of $948.10 per week. On July 1, the period will extend to 26 weeks, and eligibility criteria will be expanded.<\/p>\n

Plibersek did not directly answer a question over whether the government would be willing to expand the program to allow small businesses to offer more competitive paid parental leave offerings when compared to bigger businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek has sledged the Coalition and One Nation for their history of opposition to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-756242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}