Child Care News
ABC Learning's 'sky fell in'
NEWS.com.au - Stephen McMahon - May 16, 2008MARGIN loans and inadequate disclosure may have derailed ABC Learning but outgoing chairman Sallyanne Atkinson says there is too much corporate regulation...
Baby bonus payment 'patronising'
The Australian - Stephen Lunn - May 15, 2008One payment unlikely to be means-tested, despite the concerns of some economists, is the Child Care Tax Rebate, which was increased in the budget from 30 to...
Budget puts mums at war
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - May 15, 2008THE Government is "discriminating against stay-at-home mums" after the Budget stripped their payments, but gave richer working women increased childcare subsidies...
ABC Learning jumps on rebate
NEWS.com.au - May 14, 2008SHARES in ABC Learning Centres jumped 6 per cent today after investors digested child care initiatives announced in the Federal Budget...
So what does make you rich, Mr Rudd?
The Age - Misha Schubert - May 14, 2008Welfare for the wealthy is under fire. The Government has already announced it will raise the Baby Bonus to $5000 and will raise the child-care tax rebate...
Promises to parents will take time
Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - May 14, 2008Only nine new child-care centres will be built this year despite Labor's election promise to deliver 260 new centres to help ease the problems parents face...
Families earning $150000 stripped of Baby Bonus access
The Australian - Stephen Lunn - May 13, 2008Wayne Swan tonight fulfilled his government's election commitment to increase the Child Care Tax Rebate from 30 to 50 per cent of out of pocket costs...
The budget in brief
Melbourne Herald Sun - Matthew Schulz - May 13, 2008FAMILIES on more than $150,000 will also miss out on the fortnightly Child Care Benefit, and the Dependent Spouse tax offset...
Investment fund centrepiece for education
ABC Online - May 13, 2008This funding also includes $114.5 million to establish 38 child care centres, including six autism specific centres...
Strong support to deny rich the baby bonus
NEWS.com.au - George Megalogenis - May 12, 2008MOST voters want the baby bonus and other payments taken away from higher-income earners, a Newspoll survey has found...
Rich mums love their children too
The Australian - Lenore Taylor - May 10, 2008The baby bonus certainly does send a social message, but as many have already argued, if it is more children we are after, it would make more sense to pay extra benefits...
Parents' fury at food policy
Daily Telegraph - Elle Halliwell - May 10, 2008Parents are furious about a new childcare centre policy that restricts the types of food they can put in their children's lunchboxes...
Rudd hints at means test on baby bonus
NEWS.com.au - Samantha Maiden - May 09, 2008"Well we believe that working families need every bit of support with things like tax cuts, things like the childcare tax rebate and things like the baby ...
Long hours affect families: minister
The Age - Sarah Smiles - May 8, 2008She said this flexibility, including better maternity leave benefits and child care, was central to improving workforce participation rates for women...
Childcare workers lack skills
Melbourne Herald Sun - Andrew Drummond - May 07, 2008MORE than a third of Australia''s long day childcare workers have no formal qualifications and most parents overestimate their formal...
