Wow! What a step forward for Mums and parents everywhere. It’s hard enough to survive without having to worry about your super growth stopping or slowing down while you’re off trying to keep a Baby alive. This will definitely help many households and future generations to come. Not often you hear a positive news story.

How good is life getting for parents these days. Childcare becoming more affordable, maternity and paternity paid leave now this. It’s still not perfect, but it’s coming along in leaps and bounds

That’s great news for anyone looking at starting or extending their families.

While not relevant to me, great that my future DIL and any future granddaughters will benefit from this.

Well it’s about time.

A step in the right direction for closing the gap!

This should have been done from the beginning and would thus have not been a part of the great divide between women and men’s superannuation balances. Pleased it will be done for future mums.

Definitely should have always been one from the start

about time

It’s a great idea. There’s a lot of women who miss out on a lot less super while having children.

Wonderful idea, wish they had this when I had babies

I think this is a great move.

This makes a lot of sense.

What a wonderful idea. I hope it gets passed. Let’s sort this out so we can help our future selves and ensure that this legislation is in place for future generations.

Great initiative. So many parents ( women especially) left without enough super for retirement.

It is so important to have superannuation; will be interesting to find out more details.

I’m sure this will be a blessing for those who benefit from this.

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 24 Aug 2024 , 7:32 am

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  I wonder how this effects your retirement payment ?

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    • • mom93821 replied
      • 26 Aug 2024 , 10:40 am

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    Being able to fund retirement is necessary.

Good! It’s about time. I only wish it had been available when I took leave.

Very great, but parental leave is weird. Hubs works in the public health system and only had 2 weeks paid leave.

Great initiative, wish it was around when i was on mat leave, I could have used this with being a single parent.