Making profit the purpose of the childcare industry means that it will always be dangerous, argues former childcare worker Adam Bremner.
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The federal Treasurer tells us that cost-of-living pressures are only going to get worse before they get better. Angela Carr argues that Labor must abandon its neoliberal approach.
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Thousands of childcare workers walked out across the country as part of their campaign for better pay and conditions. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Early childcare workers are going on strike for better pay and urgent action on staff shortages, reports Jacob Andrewartha.
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Given the long-running United States' blockade on Venezuela, activists are raising money for a childcare centre there. Chris Slee reports.
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The corporate media is giving the federal government’s latest budget a big thumbs up, despite its brazen hand-outs for billionaires and big corporations, writes Alex Bainbridge.
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After eliminating almost all its generous pandemic spending measures, the federal government has indicated it will soft-peddle on further cuts in the May 11 budget. Neville Spencer reports.
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Calls are growing for early childhood education to move away from the for-profit model, writes Jim McIlroy.
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An estimated 7000 childcare workers took industrial action by walking off the job around Australia on September 5 to demand equal pay.
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Childcare workers chained themselves to the entrance doors of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Melbourne office on International Women's Day, March 8 to demand better pay for the mainly women who work in the industry.
