In Australia, six babies every day are stillborn with the rate remaining largely unchanged for two decades.
[M]ost organisations in Australia don’t extend their parental leave policies to cover employees recovering after a stillbirth. Keneally’s quest is therefore to have more employers standardise this as part of their framework; a change that would not impact a company’s bottom line given they’d already accounted for that employee’s leave.
Source: ‘She taught me to survive’: Kristina Keneally’s fight for parents of stillborns