Childcare costs are hardly childâs play
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By Nina Hendy
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Families had a taste of free childcare last year as the nation plunged into a coronavirus-induced recession, allowing more cash to be diverted into other much-needed areas of family budgets.
Now, economists and other childcare experts are calling on the federal government to rebuild its method of childcare funding to help spur economic growth as the country pulls itself out of the steepest slump in almost a century.
Australian families pay some of the highest childcare costs in the world.
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Education-department
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