News & Views Framing child care reform as a cash grab for high-earning women is a distraction That child care reform will benefit high-earning women is a two-bit sideshow compared to the economic and social benefits it will deliver.
News & Views How would free early childhood education & care impact your family? The Parenthood & Make It Free are co-hosting a conversation on MindHive about how free early childhood education & care would impact families.
News & Views Single parents are getting priced out of daycare, triggering a vicious cycle of entrenched poverty The HILDA Survey suggests single-parent households on Australia are abandoning formal childcare as they face greater poverty rates.
News & Views ‘If I’m PM I will make quality, affordable childcare universal’: Anthony Albanese pledges Anthony Albanese and Labor have responded to calls from Australian families and working women promising a $6 billion child care reform.
News & Views That women are the losers in *this* history-making big-spending budget is shameful One third of one percent of the entire history-making, big spending budget goes to women. That’s 0.038% of around $500 billion.
News & Views Not much relief for parents, but new childcare measures will rescue providers (again) Whether families actually save anything at all depends on where they live and what childcare provider they use, writes Kate Noble.
News & Views The COVID crossroads on women’s economic security As the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on women’s economic security bite, we face a critical crossroads.
Business Dozens of women-led businesses demand urgent childcare reform A group of predominately women-led businesses are spearheading an urgent campaign calling on the Government to make early childhood education and care free.
News & Views Advocates call out ‘lack of certainty’ for parents & educators as Govt outlines new childcare measures for Victoria Parents unable to use childcare services over the next six weeks, during Melbourne’s stage four lockdown, will be provided with an extra 30 days of “allowable absences”.
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 Victoria’s childcare shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers As child-care centres close in Melbourne, the focus needs to be on what governments can do to cushion the impact on working parents.
News & Views How do we focus on getting more women into & promoted in STEM when we’re struggling to afford childcare? A lot of effort’s going into promoting women in STEM but there’s one thing that’s standing in the way: unpaid work and the cost of childcare