{"id":11145,"date":"2021-04-26T02:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2021-04-26T02:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T02:04:44","slug":"early-childhood-boost-must-make-it-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/early-childhood-boost-must-make-it-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Early childhood boost must make it free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/government-looks-at-childcare-measures-that-could-boost-gdp-by-11-billion-20210425-p57m57.html\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Coalition government is considering a boost to childcare funding are welcome, but early learning must be made universal and free.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cAny funding boost for early learning is welcome. But let\u2019s be real: the most sensible and equitable move would be to make childcare universal and free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said\u00a0reports\u00a0that the Coalition government is considering a boost to childcare funding are welcome, but early learning must be made universal and free. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cAny funding boost for early learning is welcome. But let\u2019s be real: the most sensible and equitable move would be to make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/26\/early-childhood-boost-must-make-it-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early childhood boost must make it free&#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-11145","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\/11145","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=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}