Child Care News
Childcare rebate, free kinder seal it for this mum
Melbourne Herald Sun – Fay Burstin – November 22, 2007Tax, child care, education and first-home saver rebates, extra health services and cash for parents and grandparents are among goodies promised...
Families to pocket extra $40 a week
Advertiser Adelaide – Steve Lewis – November 19, 2007Policies designed to ease the squeeze include lifting the childcare rebate from 30 to 50 per cent, offering a 50 per cent education tax refund and up to...
Children are for life, not just for kissing (during elections)
The Age - Rob Moodie - November 18, 2007Apart from tax rebates for child care, a new TV channel for kids, and a laptop on every child's desk, there has been little focus on children's wellbeing...
Nowhere to go for hundreds of children as child-care centres close
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - November 17, 2007CHILD-CARE centres in six NSW country towns and one in Sydney - once linked to the corporate giant ABC Learning Centres - will close next Friday...
Labor's $200m will get 65000 kids off waiting lists
Melbourne Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - November 17, 2007VICTORIAN parents will get up to 65 new childcare centres as part of an Opposition push to ease the burden on the groaning system...
Mixed reaction to ALP plan for 65 new centres
Melbourne Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - November 17, 2007Annette Maloney and her husband Peter have been so depressed at the lack of child care around Port Melbourne they have put off having another child...
The mother of all campaigns
The Australian - Jamie Walker - November 17, 2007New to this baby business - the sleep deprivation, juggling work and child care - they look forward to their Thursday afternoons, sharing a giggle and...
Women workers nasty to mums
Daily Telegraph - November 16, 2007The results come from a new survey by child care search service, CareforKids.com.au. Researchers surveyed 300 mothers on attitudes in and out of the...
Courting the women's vote is nothing new - Menzies started it
The Age - Margaret Fitzherbert - November 16, 2007The answer is the ALP, which has a full-page ad about child care on the back of the November 19 edition of Woman's Day. History shows that whether direct...
Parents' rebate ''will drive up fees''
The Australian - Stephen Lunn and Paul Maley - November 14, 2007PARENTS risk losing any financial gain from the campaign childcare bidding war within two years if childcare providers follow past form and hike fees...
Coalition offers child care relief
The Age - Misha Schubert - November 13, 2007HALF-A-MILLION families would pay less in advance for child care if the Coalition is re-elected. The Government has announced a $652 million plan to pay the...
What families will save
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - November 13, 2007PARENTS will save an average of $30 a fortnight on their childcare bills under a Coalition plan to bring forward the payment of the 30 per...
Howard lures parents with cut in fees
The Australian – Christine Jackman and Stephen Lunn - November 13, 2007FAMILIES will enjoy a 30 per cent cut in upfront childcare fees under a Coalition plan that gambles parents would prefer a smaller but immediate reduction...
Howard admits to child-care shortage - next, the relief
Sydney Morning Herald – Stephanie Peatling - November 13, 2007FAMILIES will receive weekly instead of yearly help with child-care fees under a $687 million Coalition plan, which also acknowledges that millions of...
The spendathon will heat up the economy — and favour the rich
The Age - Tim Colebatch - November 13, 2007The best of Howard's three big initiatives yesterday was his plan to bring forward the child-care tax rebate, and pay it directly to child care providers...
