The Cost of Living Crisis

The first step of the childcare plan mid this year is to make the subsidies massively more generous, but they have set up a Productivity Commission inquiry. The long term intention is that no matter what income level you're at, no one's going to be excluded from free childcare. Which is also like it's a triple whammy. It eases cost of living. It encourages greater productivity by getting more working women feeling like they're not losing money by returning to the paid workforce. And you're giving kids a better chance because it's actually been re imagined as early learning. So the theory goes that we're going to be sort of turbo charging the education experience of kids once they do enter