{"id":8644,"date":"2020-10-10T03:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2020-10-10T03:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T03:19:45","slug":"women-to-kickstart-australias-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/women-to-kickstart-australias-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN TO KICKSTART AUSTRALIA\u2019S ECONOMIC RECOVERY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women are at the heart of Labor\u2019s plan to kickstart the economy and get Australians back to work.<br \/>\nAn Albanese Labor Government will introduce the\u00a0<em>Working Family Childcare Boost<\/em>\u00a0to cut child care fees and put more money into the pockets of working families, straight away.<br \/>\nChild care fees in Australia are some of the highest in the world. Under this plan, Labor will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scrap the $10,560 child care subsidy cap which often sees women losing money from an extra day\u2019s work;<\/li>\n<li>Lift the maximum child care subsidy rate to 90 per cent; and<\/li>\n<li>Increase child care subsidy rates and taper them for every family earning less than $530,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means 97 per cent of all families in the system will save between $600 to $2,900 a year. No family will be worse off.<br \/>\nImportantly, Labor will keep working to fix Australia\u2019s broken child care system, which currently locks out more than 100,000 families because they just can\u2019t afford it.<br \/>\nThe Productivity Commission will conduct a comprehensive review of the sector with the aim of implementing a universal 90 per cent subsidy for all families.<br \/>\nThe ACCC will design a price regulation mechanism to shed light on costs and fees and drive them down for good. The ACCC will examine the relationship between funding, fees, profits and educators\u2019 salaries.<br \/>\nTaxpayer dollars spent on child care should flow directly through to savings for Australian families.<br \/>\nThe Coalition\u2019s system has failed parents \u2013 particularly women. It has created a financial disincentive for many second wage earners to work full time, or even increase their hours.<br \/>\nOn top of that, since this Government was elected in 2013, child care fees have skyrocketed by almost 35 per cent. Now, families pay on average $3,800 more per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are at the heart of Labor\u2019s plan to kickstart the economy and get Australians back to work. An Albanese Labor Government will introduce the\u00a0Working Family Childcare Boost\u00a0to cut child care fees and put more money into the pockets of working families, straight away. Child care fees in Australia are some of the highest in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/women-to-kickstart-australias-economic-recovery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WOMEN TO KICKSTART AUSTRALIA\u2019S ECONOMIC RECOVERY&#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-8644","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\/8644","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=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}