Baby bonus question in australia?

Hi mate. I just rang centrelink when i got home from hospital and answered all there questions and also provide them with the appropriate paperwork and i recieved the payment about a month after my son was born. It has nothing to do with your tax, unless your parnter and you earn over $150k a year. You also must know that you will not recieve the payment as a $5000 one off payment anymore, from january 2009 the payments have been changed to fortnighty payments for 6 months. So a little over 400 a fortnight. goodluck and take care xxx