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January 16, 2025

RURAL WOMEN NEED CHILDCARE

The Country Women’s Association of NSW (CWA of NSW) joins calls for Government provision of universal access to early learning and care, as research suggests that being unable to work due to lack of childcare services is a challenge that regional, rural and remote mothers disproportionately grapple with.  

 

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January 09, 2025

Family Choices and Childcare

School holidays are a time when most families feel the work/care/family juggle acutely, my own family included.

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December 19, 2024

SCRAPPING THE ACTIVITY TEST CRUCIAL FOR EQUITY & COST OF LIVING RELIEF FOR PARENTS, SAY CAMPAIGNERS

The cost-of-living for parents with young children risks continuing to skyrocket into 2025, amid growing reports that the Coalition will cut funding for early childhood education and care at the Federal Election, says The Parenthood.  

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December 13, 2024

$1 BILLION CHILDCARE FUND COULD SAVE COUNTRY TOWNS, SAY RURAL HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND MINING LEADERS

The Federal Government yesterday announced a substantial investment in creating universal early childhood education and care, with a $1billion fund to build or expand more than 160 early childhood education and care services. 

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December 12, 2024

Parents want solutions not cheapshots: Liberals’ comments on early childhood education and care unhelpful

Comments from the Opposition suggesting that parents want affordable, accessible childcare so they can play golf or do pilates are unhelpful and fail to match parents’ realities, advocacy group The Parenthood says. 

 

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December 11, 2024

$1 BILLION CHILDCARE AND EARLY LEARNING FUND A LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES IN RURAL AND OUTER-SUBURBAN AREAS

The Federal Government has today announced a substantial investment in creating universal early childhood education and care, with a $1billion fund to build or expand more than 160 early childhood education and care services.

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December 11, 2024

Winding back childcare “Activity Test” a seismic win for children, equity & nation: The Parenthood

The federal government’s commitment to wind back the punitive childcare “Activity Test” – which locks an estimated 126,000 children out of early learning [1] – is a “seismic” victory on the path towards universal early childhood education and care in Australia and is wholeheartedly welcomed by advocates.

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December 10, 2024

Cost of living for parents of young children soars by 27 per cent since 2021

Living expenses for parents of children under five have grown by 27 per cent since 2021, and the exorbitant cost of early learning and care is a major contributor, finds new research from Impact Economics and Policy. 

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Australia can be world leading in setting children and families up to thrive - but at the moment, it’s not.

If you want to help us keep pushing for:

- More affordable early childhood education,
- better paid parental leave and;
- more family-friendly working conditions,

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