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A new low in Australian Politics – denying a pair to a father to attend to the birth of his child September 9, 2011

Filed under: Parenting — rakster @ 3:08 pm

Grandstanding in politics is frequent. But our current opposition leader’s position – where he is refusing to guarantee a ‘pair’ for a father about to have a child if the father is absent from parliament during a crucial vote in our no-outright-majority-parliament – has to be a new low.

Surely it’s more important for a father to be present for the birth of his child, whenever that occurs, than be present for a vote on whatever is before parliament, whenever that occurs.

I am simply appalled that there is an attempt at point-scoring and blatant media-attention-seeking focus on such an issue.

The poor child & mother.

 

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