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Eligible working parents of children born or adopted may be entitled to the paid parental leave scheme to help them care for a new baby. The pay is for up to 18 weeks at the national minimum wage (currently $772.60 per week before tax) and is paid by either your employer or the government (where employers do not provide parental leave entitlements). You can claim for paid parental leave up to three months in advance.

To be eligible you must have worked at least 330 hours across 10 of the 13 months prior to the birth of your child, but your annual salary must also be less than $151 350 The work test has been extended so that mothers can count periods of paid parental leave they've taken for earlier births as ‘work’.