E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC 24 with Julie Doyle Topics: AFP search warrants on AWU offices; New child care fee data; Higher education reforms 26/10/2017 11:37AM Julie Doyle: Minister, thanks for coming in today. Now, let’s start with the news of the day before we get to some issues in your portfolio, and the Employment…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop Interview, Canberra Topics: New child care fee data; AFP warrants on AWU offices 26/10/2017 07:35AM Simon Birmingham: New data that’s being released today in relation to child care costs. The growth in child care costs to Australian families remains unacceptably high. Now, under this Coalition, we have managed to stem that rate…
Child care fees grew at around twice the rate of the economy last year, new data from the Department of Education and Training shows. The data highlights child care fees increased by 5 per cent for all service types, including 5.7 per cent for long day care, from the 2015 December quarter through to the…