I am with you Astrid about the super - it is scary when you read how much women are down on their contributions compared to men - for us DH has very little super/pension compared to me, because he moved from job to job and did teaching in Spain to move around with me when he was younger, and has had spells out of of work over here too, as well as starting at very low paying jobs when we first came over. Super is one of the reasons I feel so strongly about how a reform is required into women working and childcare etc - and I did manage to find something on web (make care fair) about it which gives more info and facts and does summarize to some extent what different political parties are doing or not doing. That is the other thing work is giving me - time on public transport to read and think about various issues which is probably time I didn't get before. I think I am also finding that working is switching on parts of my brain that have been more switched off or on go slow for a while at least as find am thinking about all sorts of things more, and in a different way - I 'think' is a good thing :-)
I have been feeling similar. Getting quite passionate about how life all fits together with working parents. Childcare really is quite fantastic for parents working, studying and/or volunteering, in comparison to school and kinder. The Kinder system down my way is so antiquated and incredibly difficult to work around. It actually has me quite angry. I am in the dilemma of do I fight for other families to have system that works better, or do I just calm down, get through the year and save my energy for the school years.