20 November 2020
Why The Liberals Need A Better Labor Than The One They’ve Got
It was 13 years ago last week Kevin Rudd as the then-Labor opposition leader announced ‘This sort of reckless spending must stop’. He said it at the launch of the ALP campaign for the 2007 federal election in response to the claims the Coalition’s election promises were extravagant “middle-class welfare”. Unkind critics of Rudd might say that was one of his few
2 May 2019
Labor’s Childcare Splash: For Our Kids – Or Their Union Mates?
Last weekend Labor announced a $4 billion funding increase to childcare subsidies. More worryingly, Labor would also intervene to raise the wages of early childhood educators by 20 per cent over the next eight years. Government entering the private sector to top up wages is, as former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson described it, a lousy precedent. Labor tried this under the
27 March 2018
Another Union Attack on Affordable Childcare
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today called out those responsible for an unreasonable strike that will cause unnecessarily inconvenience for many families. IPA Research Fellow Gideon Rozner pointed out that excessive regulation of the childcare sector – driven largely by unions like United Voice – had driven up costs with little gain in quality. “In
