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State of the World's Mothers Report
04 May 2009 23:00:00 GMT
Source: Save the Children - Australia
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Australia is the third best place in the world to be a mother, a new global report that rates the wellbeing of mothers and children has found. But the research from Save the Children revealed a less rosy picture for children, whose wellbeing was ranked 27th out of the 43 developed countries surveyed across the globe.

 

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