News & Views Maybanke Anderson: A kindred spirit who pioneered free early childhood education Discover the incredible life of Maybanke Anderson and her ongoing campaign for universal access to quality education and care.
News & Views Early Childhood Educators are undervalued, underpaid and overworked. And this educator is angry We hear from an early childhood educator who is sick of her profession barely rating a mention when it comes to what’s being asked of them.
News & Views Health experts call for free childcare, permanently To prevent an accumulation of disadvantage and health inequities throughout the life course, health experts calls for the continuation of free childcare.
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
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 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 A return to pre-COVID childcare fees will force women out of work More than half of families using childcare will see one parent forced to reduce paid work if childcare fees return in full in July.
News & Views No, Dan Tehan. The old childcare system did not ‘work well’ & it certainly won’t now To snap back to a childcare system that was complex and unworkable even before COVID-19 is nothing short of madness, writes Lisa Bryant.
News & Views Why I’m fronting a campaign asking the Prime Minister to extend free childcare past June 28 The Prime Minister has said free childcare is not sustainable but pulling the rug out from under families & the sector ahead of schedule is not sustainable.
News & Views A reality check on life in a post-COVID-19 world How do we emerge from COVID-19 as a stronger country – a country whose citizens remember that we live in a society, not just an economy?
News & Views On childcare, we can’t ‘waste the crisis’ and go back to the old system In a remarkable turn of events, yesterday Education Minister Dan Tehan urged the parents of Australia to send their little comrades to kindy.
