Thank you for your sacrifice. I hope one day we win.

All they got was a $40k fine.

Yes and others in his party have suggested increasing educator ratios from 1 educator to every 11 children to 1 to 50.

It really upsets me to see this, and points to the lack of funding for regulatory inspections. This should have been more heavily inspected, especially as they’ll provider kept failing centres.

In my nursery room I set out to outright ban high chairs and other restrictive devices from the space late last year, to know children were going hours in them when I wasn’t even comfortable with seeing them for a minute or two once they want out is horrific.

Yes all early learning centres are rated by ACEQUA and you can search their database online:

https://www.acecqa.gov.au/resources/national-registers/services

Oh this isn’t even school, this is kindegarten/preschool. It’s even more ridiculous and stressful. We operate 1:11 at present, 1:50 would kill the profession and many children.

It creates unfair education access. Why should only those who can afford to pay ridiculous fees get better quality? Education should not be pay-to-win.

Same goes for healthcare and any other basic essentials, we do not need a two tiered approach to equality.