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What women want out of childcare

Childcare subsidies produce neither the productivity that governments want nor the services that parents want.

Fiona MuellerContributor

Oct 14, 2020 – 12.23pm

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Labor has made cheaper childcare a centrepiece of its response to the federal budget, saying that women's workforce participation is crucial to Australia's economic recovery and lifting the child care subsidy by 15 per cent as the best way of facilitating this.

Fiona Mueller is an adjunct scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies.

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