What a load of rubbish. This proposal is a recipe for an ongoing spendathon and more hands in the taxpayers pockets. We are already spending over $10 billion of public money annually on childcare, which mainly benefits well-off families with two working parents. Increased spending on schools has failed to improve educational outcomes and it is naïve to expect similar educational access in rural and remote areas, as in the cities.

Australia's high cost childcare sector is a deck of cards that would collapse if government subsidies were removed. Parents would largely desert it, if they had to pay the high costs out of their own pockets.

What is instead needed is greater parental responsibility and user pays so that families themselves decide on how to spend their own money. By all means help the needy but taxpayers cannot afford a blank cheque.

Hard to disagree with any of this! For sure and for certain regional and rural kids are being shafted in the education area! And given your education is your foundation in the opportunities of life for the rest of your life! Unfair inequality!

Even more so when it comes to tertiary education and totally inadequate living away from home allowances!

And mostly because all governments have failed to do massively overdue, decentralization! And that's because of the inner city redeveloper dollar!

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more! And I know you know what I'm saying!
Alan B.

Ever noticed how those sucking on the taxpayers teat always believe there is plenty more to be extracted from taxpayers. Here is a prime example. It already costs more than many earn in a real job, to have the baby minded, but this one wants to make it more.

Remember nursers quarters? That is where the apprentice nurses used to live while learning their trade, & being very useful working on the wards. They kept the wards clean & sanitary, while keeping the patients clean & fed, ready to be treated by doctors, not nursers.

Then the universities wanted another good income stream, so we made made nursing a degree course. Now half baked doctors, nursers think they are too good to wipe up the spills, & we employ a whole new army of "aids" to do that.

Then remember years of Labor agitating for higher pay for child minders. They got it, so now they have much higher pay, but have to have bits of paper to say they can wipe a babies bum. They like to call child care education, but we all know what a baby minder really is. Hell I think they even have a university degree in babies bum wiping to justify wages far above what the job is worth.

I guess this is just another way of taking in each others washing, keeping the people "working", now we have exported our real jobs, but requires huge subsidies for what should be done at home by mum.

behind their more advantaged city counterparts.
Susan Pascoe,
Advantaged only so far as frivolous education goes. Mentality-wise most of those 'disadvantaged' kids are miles ahead of the urban lemmings !
If you need proof just take a good long look at the useless bureaudroids & mindless consumers your circles produced. They're the one in charge of education.

*…take a good long look at the useless bureaudroids & mindless consumers your circles produced…*

Individual.

Without which there is no functioning society.

Dan

diver dan,
You're obviously mistaking the very few good ones with the horde of useless !

Individual.

On what grounds is the judgment made on who is good and who is bad?

I put this to you for consideration: the grounds to judge the worth of a bureaucracy is it’s leadership, Politicians are them.

If a bureaucracy is to have credibility it needs to have credible leadership.

As for the question of the citizens worth, Multiculturalism has been remarkable at dumbing down and isolation of communities from within the whole.

Dan

If a bureaucracy is to have credibility it needs to have credible leadership.
diver dan,
I don't know where you live but in Australia it's the other way round. We have good people in all parties but the few corrupt or incompetent or both in their in midst have the backing of the majority of voters who only consider their own situation.
Look at the lefties for example. They perpetually waffle on & argue their catch-cry "Democracy" yet when the majority makes a vote the Lefties object to the democratic outcome & sabotage & criticise ad infinitum.

The incompetent bureaucrats have struck again.

My lady has been put on stand by for jury duty for 3 weeks. OK it is fair enough to do your bit for law & order. However there is no reason for how disorganised this administration handles the thing.

For various reasons one of us has to be here at all times. My lady does the grandmother duty of picking up the youngest grand daughter taking her to & from school. As her mother lives 40 Kilometers away she usually comes home for the day, but spends 4 nights at the daughters.

Our brilliant bureaucrats can not, or is it can't be bothered advising if she is required for duty until 5.00 PM the evening before required. Neither of us can make any appointments through the whole period. I am supposed to have a hearing aid fitting, & a doctors appointment, & my lady some scans done, all of which require appointments. None of this can happen thanks to our court bureaucrat's slack system.

Hasbeen,
If Labor gets in that scenario will be the norm in anything official !
They're doing that now with Coalition bosses, just imagine when their bosses are Labor also ?