i may not be correct on this ,but this is my take on the idea to pay people to have children.
the idea to pay to get pregnant goes back to the baby boomers era,
our population is getting older and with less people in work to support the elderly ,pensions and health care,are under threat.
it is the taxes of the workers that pay for these benefits,so as people like me get to the retiring age they are going to need more money to help,
with unemployment levels rising .there seems to be a state of panic in the gov
who is going to pay for it all.
so as i see it they are trying to bolster the up coming generation by offering incentives to get pregnant to increase the ratio of young to old.
a typical bandaide package by the howard gov it makes no differance if you increase the population if the people have no jobs and not much chance of a job.
as technology gets better the labour force shrinks.

for an example farmers these days need a third less workers to run there farms as they did 15 years ago.
bigger farms,bigger equipment,auto steer tractors =less jobs
and they are close to not needing anyone to steer the tractors

any way that is my take on why they are paying people to have a child.
as i said this could be wrong.

selling off our utilities was the worst thing the gov did.
it cost us thousands upon thousands of jobs