Free childcare doesn’t suit the Coalition’s ideology – we get what we voted for | Lisa Bryant

The government’s decision to bring back fees will hurt the predominantly female childcare educators and mothers most

History will remember parts of Covid-19 Australia fondly, I suspect. Like the way public policy decisions were stripped free of ideological bias and policy that actually worked for the good of all was quickly implemented. Like free childcare. Nothing signals to Australians that we have “snapped back” to the old ways more than the Morrison government’s public holiday announcement that free childcare is to be dumped come 13 July. 

So coated in ideology is everything to do with childcare funding that we have returned to a funding system that even the education minister, Dan Tehan, describes as “quite complex”. And yet it’s this system that is now back, with a few new little extra twists and turns to complicate it even further. 

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