Childcare
The proposed childcare package: who will lose?
At the end of last year, the Federal government introduce its childcare package with a boost of $3 billion dollars.......
Childcare package disregards needs of children
Families across Australia were caught off guard with the announcement of a new childcare package the 2015/16 Budget. The Jobs......
Australia lagging behind developed countries on childcare
A report released today by the McKell Institute has found that Australia is getting left behind other developed countries when......
Childcare package disregards needs of children
Families across Australia have been caught off guard with the announcement of a new childcare package ahead of tomorrow’s Budget.......
Subsidising nannies bad for kids
The federal government has announced a two-year trial program to subsidise nannies which Social Services Minister Scott Morrison says will......
Community child care groups say Abbott’s nanny inclusive rebate misguided
Community childcare groups have called Tony Abbott’s plan to reform the child care rebate misguided. The child care rebate doesn’t......
Childcare or child abuse?
Well-known children’s author, Mem Fox, has created a stir, by likening parents putting their kids into childcare…to child abuse. Chair......
Spiralling childcare costs – are government subsidies the answer or the problem?
Research Officer, Jennifer Buckingham, from The Centre for Independent Studies has just put out some new research that says that......
Our hidden child carers – grandparents raising grandchildren
Today in Sydney, grandparents and welfare workers gathered to discuss an often unrecognized and unsupported childcare network. Over the last......
Paper presents a controversial take on child care
Jennifer Buckingham from the Centre for Independent Studies released a paper today called Child care: Who benefits? In it she......