What an amazing outcome on Saturday, November 24 when the Howard government was convincingly trounced after eleven years and Labor, led by Kevin Rudd, took the helm. For many people, the icing on the cake (for some people it was the cake!) was Maxine McKew winning Bennelong, the (former) Prime Minister’s seat. The sweetest victory [...]
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Labor has promised to increase the rebate to 50 per cent of the actual costs of child care, capped at $7500 a year, compared with the government’s policy of 30 per cent capped at $4000. The policy has been welcomed by careermums, a new group that is lobbying for working mothers. Here is their press release Tanya Plibersek MP Shadow Minister for Human Services, Housing, Women and Youth WOMEN WILL GET A BETTER DEAL UNDER A RUDD LABOR GOVERNMENT This morning I launched Labor�s Women Budget Statement. Labor prepared this statement to highlight inequities that Australian women continue to face, which the Government has neglected once again in the Budget. This budget misses [...] There has been a strong response from working mothers to my article in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 12 about the proposal by the Victorian government that the federal government adopt a plan that would address child care supply and costs, and would also inject an early education element into care. Read the article. The Premiers [...] Bush Dismantles Child Care By Ruth Rosen, TomPaine.com. Posted October 5, 2006. America’s child care crunch is more dire than ever, thanks to Bush’s gutting of government programs that assist working families. What kind of society have we become? Before members of Congress departed for recess, they gave President George W. Bush — hardly known for his wisdom [...] I received the following email this week from a woman in corporate life who points to the unfairness of the government’s approach to salary sacrificing the cost of child care: There hasn’t been much in the press lately about the cost of childcare, so |
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