{"id":10065,"date":"2021-01-27T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2021-01-27T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:09:52","slug":"childcare-expenses-back-to-pre-covid-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/childcare-expenses-back-to-pre-covid-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Childcare Expenses Back To Pre-Covid Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the December quarter Consumer Price Index data\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/statistics\/economy\/price-indexes-and-inflation\/consumer-price-index-australia\/latest-release\">released today<\/a>\u00a0by the ABS has revealed \u201cout-of-pocket [childcare] expenses have now returned to pre-COVID levels in all capital cities.\u201d<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThese latest numbers put us back to where we were before Covid-19 \u2013 with one of the most expensive childcare systems in the world.<br \/>\n\u201cThe new Minister, Alan Tudge, has an opportunity here to set a different course when it comes to early learning. We urgently need new investment to fully subsidise childcare and make it truly universal.<br \/>\n\u201cEarly learning costs in Australia are out of control. High fees make our society less equal, and limit choices for women, who have to give up study, career and work opportunities.<br \/>\n\u201cLast year, the government briefly flirted with providing fee-free childcare for all. There is no reason we can\u2019t have this again. This is a choice the government has to make: will it allow business-as-usual when we know free childcare is possible?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the December quarter Consumer Price Index data\u00a0released today\u00a0by the ABS has revealed \u201cout-of-pocket [childcare] expenses have now returned to pre-COVID levels in all capital cities.\u201d Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThese latest numbers put us back to where we were before Covid-19 \u2013 with one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/childcare-expenses-back-to-pre-covid-levels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Childcare Expenses Back To Pre-Covid Levels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}