14 January, 2009
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Crucial to the future of the childcare industry is not the collapse of ABC Learning per se, but how the demise of the market giant has exposed gaping holes in both Labor's childcare plans and a widening ideological chasm between sectors of the childcare industry.
The Gov...
14 January, 2009
Thousands of families could lose their local Childcare Centre in a licensing bungle over closing ABC Centres which the Government should have anticipated, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella said today.
“Minister Gillard famously said that many of the ABC Ce...
19 December, 2008
Minister Gillard’s failure to manage the ABC Learning crisis has resulted in hundreds of families being left in the lurch just six day before Christmas, Shadow Minister for Childcare Sophie Mirabella said today.
“We now have 14 Centres that have not appeared on any ABC Learning list the Receivers h...
18 December, 2008
Australian parents and early learning childhood teachers should be concerned about the Rudd Government’s Early Years Learning Framework (Draft.) This is a bizarre attempt to foist political correctness on the youngest of all Australians, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare So...
15 December, 2008
As more questions continue to arise about the future of the 241 ABC Learning Centres deemed “unviable”, the Government has a duty to ensure that the Expression of Interest process is transparent and fair, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella said today.
“The ...
12 December, 2008
Individuals and organisations that have already registered an expression of interest in an ABC childcare centre and received no response will be stunned that a whole new process will now be started by new court appointed ABC Receivers, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Soph...
11 December, 2008
The Government has continued to ignore childcare operators interested in some of the ABC centres which are either unviable or set to close creating undue distress amongst affected parents, children and staff, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella MP said today....
10 December, 2008
Taxpayers are being forced to foot an extra $34 million bill as a result of the Rudd Government’s mishandling of the ABC Learning crisis, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella said today.
“Due to their own mismanagement and failure to act and engage other indu...
09 December, 2008
Nearly half of all eligible families had not received the Government’s promised quarterly payment of the 50% child care rebate that was due in October, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella MP said today.
“The revelation that only 365,000 of the 600,000 eligib...
08 December, 2008
The Government’s continued “hands off” approach to the ABC learning situation has left many parents confused and many questions unanswered, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare Sophie Mirabella MP said today.
“The announcement by the Receivers last week that they are working ...