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Why childcare must be made free
Expensive childcare is an unfair levy on jobs. And early childhood education would improve life chances all round.
Sam CrosbyContributorTo make sense of Australia’s childcare system in 2020, consider the laryngeal nerve of the giraffe.
Like all vertebrates, a giraffe’s voice box is connected to its brain via two nerves. One of them, the superior laryngeal, takes a five-centimetre direct route. The other, the recurrent laryngeal, takes a bizarre five-metre detour, shooting past the voice box all the way down to a main artery near the heart, where it does a U-turn and returns back up the other side of the neck.
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