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Short-term politics won’t leave sustainable childcare legacy
Five years ago, Labor promised to subsidise childcare wages and was howled down. Now, it hardly moves the dial.
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorArguably, one legacy of Kim Beazley never becoming prime minister is that Australia has a cripplingly expensive and increasingly unsustainable childcare sector.
In May 2006, just seven months before Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard joined forces to seize the leadership of the Labor opposition, Beazley promised that, if elected in 2007, he would “end the double drop-off”.
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