Child care: dropping the drop-offThe loss of 200-plus promised child care centres is the latest example of both a broken election promise and government misuse of data to justify bad policy making, writes Eva Cox.
Child care
The elephant in the child care reform strategy
Despite the Government already spending over $56M to fund child care and save centres, it refuses to look at how the current funding model made such collapses inevitable.
Baby on board: the kind of stunt the Greens crave
Claims that federal politics is “one of the least family-friendly occupations in the country” are simply absurd nonsense, writes Former Liberal Party Senator Noel Crichton-Browne.
Baby in the chamber: the ugly anti-family face of parliament
Our Parliamentary standards are still stuck in a Victorian era of old white male legislators, writes Bernard Keane.
Anti-family attitudes are embedded in our parliament
Do we want mothers of young children (and hopefully fathers with child care responsibilities) to be MPs or not? asks Senator Sue Boyce.
We hate children
So when all the ABC Child Care Centres close, what happens?
