News & Views The childcare situation in Victoria right now is a disaster Thousands of educators in long day childcare services across Melbourne have no guarantee of income for at least the next 6 weeks.
News & Views An ode to Schitt’s Creek Schitt’s Creek, a Canadian TV show co-created by Dan Levy and his father Eugene Levy, has received 15 Emmy nominations for its sixth and final season.
News & Views Combining work with small children is hard. It’s harder still if you have a partner who doesn’t parent In a weekend op-ed Vicky Campion outlines the myriad ways trying to combine work with parenting two small children is the ‘mother of all battles’.
News & Views Julia Gillard regrets not confronting sexism earlier but it wouldn’t have helped The former Prime Minister Julia Gillard regrets not confronting sexism earlierin her tenure but it wouldn’t have helped. Australia wasn’t ready to listen.
News & Views Free childcare ends today. Here’s why that spells disaster Even when the end of free childcare was announced in early June it felt inexplicably premature & short-sighted. Now, it seems completely unsustainable.
News & Views Dr Clare Wenham’s daughter crashed her BBC interview & we’re here for it Dr Clare Wenham, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics, was being interviewed on the BBC when her daughter Scarlett stole the show.
News & Views More money & jobs for the boys! The PM ear-marks $270 billion for defence The PM will announce on Wednesday that $270 billion will be spent on new and upgraded defence capabilities over the next decade.
News & Views Why free childcare is the key to economic recovery Free childcare provides the rarest of economic policy opportunities – an effective form of fiscal stimulus in the short term and the long run.
News & Views The first – and only – female Chief Justice of the High Court permitted the independent inquiry into former judge Susan Kiefel is the first female to serve as the Chief Justice of the High Court. Would an inquiry into Dyson Heydon have occurred without her?
News & Views ‘We are ashamed that this could have happened at the High Court of Australia’: Inquiry finds former Justice Dyson Heydon sexually harassed female associates Former High Court Judge, Dyson Heydon, had been found by a High Court inquiry to have sexually harassed six female associates.
News & Views Malala Yousafzai graduates from Oxford University On Saturday Malala Yousafzai shared photos celebrating the end of her PPE degree at the University of Oxford. She graduates at age 22.
News & Views Dan Tehan: Please note more research showing families cannot afford pre-COVID19 childcare fees New research from The Front Project & Mitchell Institute confirms a reduction in demand for childcare is practically guaranteed when childcare fees return.