Australia third from bottom in early childhood development.
May 5th 2009, 1:47 am
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Australia third from bottom in early childhood development.
May 5th 2009, 2:06 am
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May 5th 2009, 5:11 am
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May 5th 2009, 5:29 am
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Benchmarks in which Australia failed included the provision of a year's parental leave at half-pay, having priority plans for disabled children, subsidising early education services and spending one per cent of GDP on childhood services.
May 5th 2009, 5:45 am
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Pity they didn't give the total result instead of just one section of it...
http://www.savethechildren.org/campa...s-report/2008/
The Best and Worst Places to be a Mom (must be from USA)
Top
1 Sweden
2 Norway
3 Iceland
4 New Zealand
5 Denmark
6 Australia
7 Finland
8 Ireland
9 Germany
10 France
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145 Chad
146 Niger
http://www.savethechildren.org/campa...s-report/2008/
The Best and Worst Places to be a Mom (must be from USA)
Top
1 Sweden
2 Norway
3 Iceland
4 New Zealand
5 Denmark
6 Australia
7 Finland
8 Ireland
9 Germany
10 France
.
145 Chad
146 Niger
May 5th 2009, 6:36 am
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It's all so predictable.
May 5th 2009, 7:29 am
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And so it goes on...
May 5th 2009, 8:45 am
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Although I did expect places like Niger and Chad to come a lot lower than the likes of Sweden and Norway 
May 5th 2009, 9:32 am
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*shrug* If you only want responses that agree with your own viewpoint then don't post them on a 'discussion' forum. Above and beyond that, not sure what you wanted people to say - whenever anything like this comes out that casts the UK in a poor light the usual suspects are on hand to chorus 'Lies, damn lies and statistics'. Thus far nobody's rubbished the survey the news report is based on, have they? As to the rest of it, personally speaking I don't think there should be paid parental leave ...
