Mr Turnbull: Job Creation and Law Change

mr turnbull: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the law change would undermine a push to improve women workforce participation."If Mr Turnbull wants to talk up job creation ... is committed to helping people find work and stay at work, drop the absurd paid parental leave propositions," Mr Shorten told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday, according to Nine News Australia. The prime minister and his deputy Barnaby Joyce have completed a week-long visit to Queensland where they talked up the need for job-creating projects such as roads, dams, tourism and the national broadband network. Independents Derryn Hinch and Nick Xenophon are edging closer to an agreement with the coalition which would put the axe to taxpayer-funded parental leave entitlement for up to 80,000 women - saving the budget about $1.2 billion. Asked about the prospect of a deal on parental leave, Mr Turnbull said he would work with the crossbenchers."We're very committed to ensuring our national economic plan delivers the growth, the jobs that we need, and it does so above all else in a manner that is fair," he said of the scheme changes. Senator Xenophon is open to supporting the plan that aims to stop parents claiming both employer and government paid leave, provided the start date is delayed until October 2017."The January 1st start date has caused much angst and distress amongst expectant mums," Senator Xenophon said. Labor may be taken out of the picture when the bill comes up for a vote in parliament. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.