Here you can find links to interesting stories in TV, radio, newspaper, blogs, online or offline on issues about Paid Parental Leave, Early Childhood Education, Outside School Hours Care, working and caring, family life, pregnancy and politics.
Survey - Fee increases
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The Parenthood Newsletter June
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"Are school hours sexist?" - Georgie Dent's op-ed in Women's Agenda
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Jess' story
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Maybanke Anderson - join tonight's lecture online via Zoom:
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Maybanke Anderson - book your ticket to Georgie Dent's lecture here
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Maybanke Anderson - Georgie Dent's article in Women's Agenda
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Georgie Dent in the Sydney Morning Herald
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THE PARENTHOOD MEDIA TRAINING
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THE PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES WELCOME CALL
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The Parenthood May Newsletter
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May Budget 2023 - our media release
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Georgie Dent op-ed in The Canberra Times
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Raise the rate for good! Sign open letter here:
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Support single mothers and their children - send an email to Anthony Albanese!
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"I've just given birth to my second child. It will slam me financially."
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War in Ukraine
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#ParentsUp petition
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THE PARENTHOOD URGES BUDGET ACTION
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UNIVERSAL PRE-SCHOOL FOR 3-YEAR-OLDS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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THE PARENTHOOD MEDIA TRAINING
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Bluey Turtleboy episode
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Our trip to Canberra: Early Educators need a pay rise!
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Newsletter April
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Three letters can change Australia - We're voting YES
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"Why is sharing care of their beloved kids still not considered manly enough to fit with Australian workplace masculinity?"
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"Autistic children are not broken and do not need to be fixed. They need to be accepted."
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Declining number of children attending preschool
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Read Louise and Dan's story here:
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Join The Parenthood! Let's make Australia the best place to be a parent.
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Silje's story
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NSW votes! Take our quick survey here:
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Early educators need a pay rise! Send an email to your local MP.
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"The Parenthood calls for next federal budget to abolish the activity test."
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Join The Parenthood! Let's make Australia the best place to be a parent.
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Op-ed by Fiona Stanley
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Reform vital for closing the gender pay gap
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Work begins on new universal early childhood education system across Australia
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Parents Up campaign
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Country kids deserve better - online seminar
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Find out more about Angelman Syndrome here:
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Sign the open letter here:
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Help the families in Turkey and Syria:
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We welcome the appointment of Deborah Brennan to lead Productivity Commission Inquiry into Australia's early childhood education and care system:
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You can find our February newsletter here!
Parents and children have uneven access to early childhood education and care:
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Take the KindiCare survey here: Please click here
Georgie Dent - 'Reforms needed to bring families out of the childcare deserts." (PAYWALL)
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Join Julia Gillard and Georgie Dent for an online forum on early childhood education in South Australia
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Media reports today of daycare fees hikes, some as high as double digits - our media release
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"More men want to be stay-at-home dads and better fathers."
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End of the year newsletter - Please click here
Louise story: "I wish the childcare subsidy was less complex."
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How much screen time for my child?
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Sign the Thrive by Five petition!
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"The way children develop is like a layering approach." Sharon Goldfeld on early education.
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Share your story with The Parenthood Community! Fill out our form here:
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Send an email to Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy
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Our report: Back of the Pack
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ParentsUp petition
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Women take the lion's share of domestic work
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Michelle's story
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Newsletter November
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Inclusive education - Mac's story
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Introduction of new kindy funding scheme in Queensland
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Patricia Karvelas on the motherhood penalty
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March of the Mummies
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Georgie Dent in conversation with Lisa Bryant
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World Teachers Day - find out more here:
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Share your story with The Parenthood Community! Fill out our form here:
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The Parenthood has welcomed the Albanese Government's family-friendly budget
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Nick's story of being an early educator
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Early Learning Monitor
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Aboriginal educators are inspiring the next generation of First Nations children
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Boosted paid parental leave to entice fathers to take more leave
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Georgie Dent speaks to Catherine Liddle, the CEO of SNAICC
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Find out more about Early Learning Matters Week
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Cabinet to debate raising paid parental leave to 26 weeks
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What is more important: family, wellbeing, career or money?
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Spotlight Weeks
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Newsletter October
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Two years ago Anthony Albanese made a decision that put him on the path to become Prime Minister
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Let's support school cleaners! Sign the petition here:
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"Will staff be the ones to benefit or will private companies just pocket the difference?" (PAYWALL)
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"Childcare workers say government subsidy won't work unless staff shortages addressed."
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The Parenthood welcomes Labor's "Cheaper Childcare" legislation and calls for better support for early educators
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"Australia can solve its childcare worker crisis - but only if we are bold"
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"Government announces inquiry into childcare costs"
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Listen to Georgie Dent's speech at the Select committee on Work and Care
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Select committee on Work and Care
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Independent MPs Zali Steggall and Zoe Daniel want the government to commit to expanding paid parental leave.
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Paid Parental Leave
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"Parents can't work. Childcare staffing crisis on Sunshine Coast."
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"It's important for children to see both mum and dad being parents."
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KindiCare Quality Index
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Support school cleaners! Sign the petition here!
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Join one of our 45-minute VIC/NSW State Election Workshops
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Pregnant discrimination
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Let's support early educators!
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Let's support early educators!
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Thank Premier Rockliff
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Increasing paid parental leave to 52 weeks would give billion-dollar boost to economy, unions say
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Join the conversation on how to put the care economy right at the heart of the Government's Jobs & Skill Summit.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_RCBJlPtRRLOwK96ZMwB4TA
We won a golden ticket! - Georgie's blog post
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"Tackling gender imbalance" (PAYWALL)
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"Super on parental leave is essential."
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Australia's most in-demand professions revealed.
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What's your experience with Paid Parental Leave? Let us know and fill in our story form!
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"Economic insanity"
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"Canberra childcare crisis"
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"Childcare sector reaching crisis point"
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Thrive by Five: Emergency Plan to ease early educator workforce crisis
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"I racked up $50,000 of debt."
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"My child is ruining my career."
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Melbourne parents pay some of most expensive early learning fees.
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Underpaid and under-educated: Calls to boost qualifications and pay for early educators.
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Achieving gender equity in this lifetime.
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It's more than tough to raise children and work full time.
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Let’s invest in more paid parental leave, writes Erin Molan, because it’s not just mum, dad and the baby who benefit — it strengthens our nation’s future.
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The ‘motherhood penalty’: Women’s wages drop for up to a decade after birth
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Australia must think of children!
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Ash Barty - NAIDOC person of the year!
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Anne Aly says full-time kindergarten plan 'on table'
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Post-Election Survey
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"People made comment like "oh, are we babysitting today?" - Max' story
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New UNICEF report: Where do rich countries stand on childcare?
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Men could take up to 20 weeks paid paternity leave
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Early intervention - blog post by Sue Tape
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"NSW budget: Women and families given financial boost."
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"What it really takes to get women in the mood to have more children" - op-ed by Jessica Irvine
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"A game changer" - Melbourne mum of three responds to government’s early education overhaul
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Georgie Dent speaking to Patricia Karvelas
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"NSW government reveals $5 billion childcare plan in state budget."
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"Labor condiders fast-tracking childcare policy."
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"Three things I would fix as Australia's (fantasy) minister for early education and childcare."
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"It's time we start properly valuing the women who care for us."
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"Huge pay for babysitters amid childcare crisis"
READ Chantelle Francis article on news.com.au
A better deal for families was key to 2022 Federal Election
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"Amanda Rishworth is expected to be sworn in as the new Early Childhood Education and Youth Minister."
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"We have a new Government. This feels good!"
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If the cost of early childhood education and care influences your vote this Saturday there is a huge difference between what the major parties are offering. This Saturday you have a real choice!
"There is a huge difference between the major parties on childcare."
READ Georgie Dent's article in The Canberra Times
Australia ranks #2 in world for most expensive childcare
The release of new OECD families data highlights the crippling cost of early childhood education Australian parents endure.
READ OUR MEDIA RELEASE HERE
AN HONEST CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY ALBANESE
The fact the Labor leader made time to sit with parents for a wide-spanning conversation with no parameters just weeks from the election is telling.
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MOTHER's DAY
Our latest press release: Mums need decent policies - not platitudes!
Quick Election Poll: link here
ACTIONS
Quick Election Poll: link here
ACTIONS
Write a letter to your MP calling for better Paid Parental Leave and early learning & care: link here
Sign our #ParentsUp petition for Paid Parental Leave, childcare and OSHC families deserve! Link here
STORY PAGE
Read stories from parents like us here.
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LINKS TO RELEVANT ARTICLES AND RESOURCES:
- ‘Huge chunk of our wage’: Childcare fees outstrip inflation over long term
- NEW CPI DATA REVEALS CHILDCARE COSTS ARE UP BY 14.7% SINCE LAST ELECTION
- Sit in the fire: how to talk to kids about the world as it is.
- KindiCare, the creator of Australia’s first early childhood education finder app, has launched a new comparison website on which you can search early learning services by postcode, suburb, centre or brand. Check it out here!
- "In health, social, educational and economic terms there are no other reforms with the capacity to transform our nation like paid parental leave and access to quality early childhood education and care," writes our ED Georgie Dent in her excellent op-ed in Women's Agenda.
- In less than 2 months we'll all vote for the next Federal government. This is a chance to influence the shape of this country! In 3 minutes tell us what you & your family want from politicians. Take our election survey here: https://form.typeform.com/to/gLFDpIgC?typeform-source=theparenthood.nationbuilder.com
- Allison Pennington's take on #budget22 in the @thenewdaily is a must read: "This budget signals more cuts to workers’ pay. The budget has earmarked reducing legislated minimum redundancy payments for part-time workers. This will disproportionately affect women."
- Craig Emerson Economics: "It is insane that when women constitute 58 per cent of uni graduates each year, the Morrison government has devised a policy that penalises mothers for working more than three days a week."
- Mamamia article featuring Patti on the Money: "The fees were like birth control. We had to move." The true cost of daycare in Sydney.
- You can find our budget submission 2022/23 here.
- The Australian: Do you agree that it's high time we stop seeing gender equity as a cost and instead recognise it as an investment in Australia’s economic future?
- Brisbane Times: “When men take parental leave, they’re more likely to participate in childcare on an ongoing basis and have a more equitable division of unpaid work at home."
- "Maintaining some connection to paid work during their child-rearing years is the most important thing a woman can do to protect her financial independence", Georgie Dent tells the Brisbane Times.
- Brisbane Times: NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has taken aim at his federal colleagues, warning if Canberra fails to take the lead on universal affordable and accessible early learning, NSW will step in.
- Every woman in Australia deserves access to a safe place to work, a safe place to live, fair and #equalpay, quality free #earlylearning & care, and a justice system that works for survivors.
https://safetyrespectequity.com.au
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