Child Care News
Rudd to lift childcare
Courier Mail – Michael Madigan – October 22, 2007"The cost of child care has spiralled and is compounding the financial pressures families are under due to high petrol prices and mortgage repayments and...
$1.5bn child care cash
NEWS.com.au – Laura Anderson - October 22, 2007FAMILIES will be able to claim half of their childcare costs, under a $1.5 billion Labor plan to make child care more affordable...
Flight of vital workers spurs cheap rent plan
Sydney Morning Herald - Catharine Munro and Brian Robins - October 22, 2007COUNCILS are developing affordable housing policies to try to stop teachers, nurses, police and child-care workers leaving expensive parts of the city...
Plea for workers
Melbourne Herald Sun – Fleur Leydon - October 22, 2007Some of these people are prevented from joining the workforce by financial, tax and infrastructure barriers, as well as child care impediments and employer...
Labor reveals $1.5b scheme to cut childcare costs
Melbourne Herald Sun - October 22, 2007FAMILIES will be able to claim up to half of their out-of-pocket childcare costs from the government if Labor wins the federal election...
Lalor East Preschool makes sunglasses compulsory
Melbourne Herald Sun – Peter Rolfe and Catherine Lambert - October 21, 2007Lalor East Preschool has told children to wear sunglasses, shirt, sunscreen and hat to avoid harmful UV rays. Children will not be allowed in the playground...
Poll gives both Howard and Rudd pause for thought
The Age – October 19, 2007Australians want clear, competing visions on future fundamentals, including education, skills, health, child care and aged care, housing, infrastructure...
Asbestos victim scorns Hockey
Sydney Morning Herald – Andrew West - October 19, 2007...parishes who think unions are irrelevant, but I know single mothers who are being stomped on by their employers because they cannot arrange childcare...
Howard rates 'gotcha' glitch as fair play
Sydney Morning Herald – Phillip Coorey and Peter Hartcher October 18, 2007Mr Howard dismissed the charge and confirmed the Government would unveil a child-care policy later in the campaign. He said it would not involve tax...
Child centre first to earn badge
NEWS.com.au - Clare Peddie - October 17, 2007ALDINGA Community Child Care Centre is the first in Australia to earn a "climate neutral" badge for offsetting carbon dioxide emissions...
Parties courting working mums
NEWS.com.au - Sue Dunlevy and Edith Bevin - October 17, 2007A CHILDCARE handout worth between $30 and $160 a fortnight will be used by both major parties to court the votes of working mothers...
Working women under mountain of pressure
Daily Telegraph – Stephen Lunn - October 17, 2007WOMEN aged between 35 and 44 face the perfect storm of stress as they seek to balance the peak years of their career with responsibility for households, children and parents...
Early days for a political survivor
The Age – Farrah Tomazin – October 15, 2007And with thousands of women citing the cost of childcare as a reason why they are not in the workforce, Ms Morand - who is also the Women's Minister - plans...
Review of staff ratios in preschool
The Age – Farrah Tomazin – October 15, 2007STAFF-TO-CHILD ratios in child-care centres and preschools could be improved under a State Government overhaul. In the first review of child services...
Love-loathe PM v Conservative Rudd: Your November 24 choice
Daily Telegraph - October 14, 2007Mr Howard said the government would announce further childcare initiatives in during the election campaign. "More than 80 per cent of Australians, now...
