Coalition's $5.5b scheme a first - but is it money well spent?

Updated August 24 2013 - 10:08am, first published 3:00am

It is more than a decade since John Howard branded the daily juggle of working parents a ''barbecue stopper''. But this year's election campaign shows work and family are still potent politics.

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