A Labor government would bring responsibility for early childhood policies together into a single strategy,as it seeks to make childcare an election battleground.
Children aged under five will soon make up almost two-fifths of Australia’s unvaccinated population,but there are few sector-wide policies for how to deal with COVID at childcare services.
The big for-profit childcare centres put children most at risk. Yet,with government support,they now run half of all our childcare services.
Australia’s largest early learning provider was fined in a Queensland court after the three-year-old boy’s death last year.
Now is the time to make our early childhood system the backbone of Australia’s social and economic wellbeing.
Traditional but simple play activities are a good alternative to screen time and off-limit playgrounds. Better yet,they’re largely self-directed,giving parents a break.
The Department of Education strengthens its call for parents across Sydney to keep their children home from school.
It’s a classic showbiz story:producer chooses one particular bear,imaginatively names it Big Ted and it becomes a TV legend.
Amid national panic at a pandemic,the joy and energy of a toddler offers perspective.
Architect-turned-sculptor Jan van Schaik says his Lost Tablets series was inspired by the Parthenon.
The three ages of dinosaurs.