WELCOME STABILITY FOR CHILDREN’: PARENTS CELEBRATE DROP IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR VACANCIES FOLLOWING PAY RISE NEWS
January 24, 2025
New data shows the Federal Government-funded pay rise for early childhood educators, which was legislated in November, has already improved the educator workforce shortage.Media release...
RURAL WOMEN NEED CHILDCARE
January 16, 2025
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...
Family Choices and Childcare
January 09, 2025
School holidays are a time when most families feel the work/care/family juggle acutely, my own family included.School holidays are a time when most families feel...
SCRAPPING THE ACTIVITY TEST CRUCIAL FOR EQUITY & COST OF LIVING RELIEF FOR PARENTS, SAY CAMPAIGNERS
December 19, 2024
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...
$1 BILLION CHILDCARE FUND COULD SAVE COUNTRY TOWNS, SAY RURAL HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND MINING LEADERS
December 13, 2024
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...
Parents want solutions not cheapshots: Liberals’ comments on early childhood education and care unhelpful
December 12, 2024
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,...
$1 BILLION CHILDCARE AND EARLY LEARNING FUND A LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES IN RURAL AND OUTER-SUBURBAN AREAS
December 11, 2024
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...
Winding back childcare “Activity Test” a seismic win for children, equity & nation: The Parenthood
December 11, 2024
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] –...
Cost of living for parents of young children soars by 27 per cent since 2021
December 10, 2024
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...
Fixed-fee childcare model key to parents’ votes at Federal Election
December 02, 2024
The Parenthood, who have been campaigning for universal early learning and childcare to ease cost of living and cost of working pressures on families for...
Replacing Child Care Subsidy with a low fixed-fee could lift women’s workforce participation by 134,000 FTE workers
November 25, 2024
Mothers’ workforce participation could be lifted by up to 134,000 full-time-equivalent workers if the Federal Government caps daily early learning and childcare fees at $10...
INEFFECTIVE AND INFLATIONARY – CHILDCARE SUBSIDY FAILING AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES AND CHILDREN
November 01, 2024
New analysis shows that families with young children have received little to no cost relief from the increases to the rate of the Childcare Subsidy...