[Link] In modern Australia, why must caring for your family come second to your work duties?

Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Caring is harder than work. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. The hardest thing about work is organising how to do it around caring commitments.

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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.

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[Link] Female Coalition MPs ‘fire up’ after party room told working women are ‘outsourcing parenting’

Read: 23/6/2021 www.theguardian.com

Labor has slammed the Coalition for holding “completely archaic” views on childcare after a fierce debate erupted among government MPs about subsidies, with one suggesting working women were “outsourcing parenting”.

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