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一 | Canberra, Oct 15 (UNI) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to increase paid parental leave (PPL) entitlements for up to six months.
Albanese on Saturday revealed the policy in a speech to a Labor Party conference, declaring the move would boost productivity.

Currently, parents are entitled to 18 weeks of parental leave paid at the same rate as the minimum wage.
The government's proposal would add weeks to the entitlement until parents with a new baby can access 26 weeks of paid leave from July 2026.
Albanese said increasing PPL was one of the most frequent proposals raised by participants at the Jobs and Skills Summit in September.
The government believed that this reform "has a significant benefit" to families and is an investment in women's economic equality and in the broader Australian economy.

The new scheme will maintain "use it or lose it" weeks to encourage more dads and partners to access PPL, so that both parents can share the caring responsibilities more equally.

"We know that investing in parental leave benefits our economy. It is good for productivity and participation, it's good for families and it's good for our country as a whole," Albanese said.

Amanda Rishworth, Minister for Social Services, said boosting women's workforce participation and encouraging more dads to take parental leave is a priority for the government.

"This will benefit mums, it will benefit dads, it's good for children and it will be a huge boost to the economy," Rishworth said.

More details were expected to be revealed when the government hands down the federal budget on October 25.
UNI/XINHUA ING。 Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony in Wenchang, Hainan Provincial Governor Feng Fei said that once the project is completed in 2024, the island province will use it to turn Wenchang into a world-class spaceport, establishing an “entire space industry chain” including carrier rockets, satellites, and data processing centers.,China Aerospace Construction Group is building the facility for the Hainan government and three state-owned space firms: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp and China Satellite Network Group.,© Guo Cheng/ XinhuaPhoto taken on July 6, 2022 shows the construction site of Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port construction, the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site is committed to becoming world-class, market-oriented, and further improving the launching capability of China's commercial carrier rockets.Photo taken on July 6, 2022 shows the construction site of Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port construction, the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site is committed to becoming world-class, market-oriented, and further improving the launching capability of China's commercial carrier rockets.© Guo Cheng/ Xinhua,The nearby Wenchang Space Launch Center is operated by the Chinese state alongside three other launch centers in Jiquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang, which together focus on state programs like lunar exploration and manned space flight. However, the new commercial launch center will be aimed at meeting China’s burgeoning commercial space industry in the longer term.,"The existing government-run launch centers are well developed but they are too busy to handle the increasing demands from the commercial space sector and it is not uncommon that even a government-assigned mission would have to wait for arrangement at those sites," Hu Shengyun, a senior rocket designer at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, told China Daily.,He added that the state-operated launch sites were not designed for the volume of traffic that the commercial site will have to handle, so it is better if they don’t have to worry about it.,© Guo Cheng/XinhuaAerial photo taken on July 6, 2022 shows the construction site of Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port construction, the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site is committed to becoming world-class, market-oriented, and further improving the launching capability of China's commercial carrier rockets.Aerial photo taken on July 6, 2022 shows the construction site of Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port construction, the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site is committed to becoming world-class, market-oriented, and further improving the launching capability of China's commercial carrier rockets.© Guo Cheng/Xinhua,The new commercial launch site will also feature a rocket recovery site and specialized launch pads for the Long March 5, 7 and 8 families of rockets, and will have a launch pad reserved for manned missions to the Moon. It will also include facilities for rocket assembly and testing. Its location so close to Earth’s equator will give rockets a major speed boost, saving on fuel.,Ningbo, in the eastern Zhejiang Province, is also expected to build a similarly impressive commercial launch facility, as is Haiyan in Shandong Province.,However, the private space industry sector, which is still small in China, reportedly has doubts about the new facility.,“I don’t think those pads are going to be cheap,” a source who works for a commercial launch start-up based in Beijing told the South China Morning Post. “I’m not sure how many commercial launches will be planned each year, but that is likely to be a small number, so each launch is going to be really expensive.”。