HECS-style loan flagged as an alternative to paid parental leave scheme

By Judith Ireland
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:02pm, first published July 7 2014 - 3:00am

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme looks unlikely to pass the Senate in its current form, but a prominent free market think tank has come up with a compromise: give parents a HECS-style loan to fund the 26 weeks of parental leave instead.

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