I sent you a PM ...

I work from home, but with a newborn I really can't do much, I find I only have one hand most of the time and I don't have long stretches where I can actually think, so I seem to be spending way more time than I should doing pointless stuff like reading forums and blogs Hopefully things get more productive in a few months.

When I was single I fiddled my hours to be just under the thresholds, I paid almost nothing for childcare with the rebates, I got rent assistance, by the time you added all that up and factored in tax, hecs and childcare if I was fulltime, it was the equivalent money to a fulltime job on around twice the wage. If I had been part of a couple I wouldn't have got a cent from CL. You're "supposed" to both be working or one of the couple earns a high wage, its not set up for two low earners.