Jason Leong
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499 appearances
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard 29 Jun
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So I didn't think about insurance.
I didn't really think about the impact to my disposable income.
Any other trade-offs that I had to make, I only discovered as I went.
And if I realized that, you know, it wouldn't probably have changed my decision-making as much either, but it would have certainly prepared me for the journey and I wouldn't have been so surprised.
And I think back then there weren't as many resources for finding opportunities.
out information about houses.
And we've got a broad data set here, but obviously the reason why I asked about friends and the people in your communities, obviously the data that they have, the insights that they have are way more relevant to you having a child in your environment than just say a broad-based chat about subsidies and that sort of thing.
Absolutely.
And as we've understood it, I mean, I was talking to some of my team members who do have kids and they said it's not too arduous, but it's still one additional step that you've got to take to then hand your receipts back.
And you do get paid straight away, but it's a little bit of friction.
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, and that it's not a universal subsidy, not like we have in Australia.
So looking at the system that Australia has, it really is closer to what's in Norway and Sweden, and the outcomes are markedly better.
And so...
I mean, what I've learned here as well is just the long-term thinking that governments have around childcare.
And that's the good news story here in Australia, is that through multiple election cycles, the government has determined that it is worth providing childcare help to the population.
Because it is worth having these benefits of supporting people going back into the workforce and to encourage kids to eventually be taxpayers as well.
Because everywhere else, the birth rate is dropping.
And it's still, in fact, across the... And this is public data, the US, Australia and New Zealand data.
Birth rates are dropping, and it's just certainly getting more expensive to raise kids, and it's just getting more expensive to live now.
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