In reply to neo o's post-
I just find the amount of liberal supporters on this site depressing. I always thought that once the old conservatives had died off, the younger, more clear-thinking generation could take over and reduce the liberal party to political nothingness. But I now see that it will always be a long, hard struggle.
A drop in unemployment? I think I have heard that, but do you have any statistics as to which sections of the workforce this took place and just what did the Liberal party implement for a rise in employment to occur? I'm just interested.
Sorry, I should of defined what I think a stay at home mother is properly. Personally, I've got no qualms with a women taking up to four years off work to support a newborn, but I see stay at home mothers as the women who don't return to work for the duration of their kid's childhood. I suppose you can argue these women are working to raise their children, and that that is the real occupation of these women, but that's pretty crap. It's a very restricted view of a womans ability and potential in the workforce.
Latham is taking the pressure off real, both parents working, Australian families.
Victory to the ALP.
btw: housewives who consider themselves real women should are either incredibly stupid or incredibly conervative. The age of having the mother stay at home to raise children and having the father win all the bread is over. The real Australian woman is the working woman.
Vitory to the ALP.