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• 'A vast national experiment': The history of privatising care services

  21-03-2025 21:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Has privatisation of Australia's social services lived up to its promise?  
  
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• Foster carer who quit after 3 weeks says she was 'set up to fail'

  16-05-2025 04:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A foster carer who resigned after three weeks claims she was 'set up to fail,' as advocates raise concerns about a foster care crisis.
  
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• Childcare giant offered family money to stay quiet after boy badly burned

  14-05-2025 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  A boy is left badly burned after an unsafe child care incident. His parents rush him to hospital to save his finger. It should never have happened.
  
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• Boy left badly burned, blistered and bloody after shocking incident at child care

  14-05-2025 20:47 via abc.net.au
  
  A boy is left badly burned after an unsafe child care incident. His parents rush him to hospital to save his finger. It should never have happened.
  
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• Video shows baby girl being hit in face by laughing childcare worker

  11-05-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation into for-profit childcare giant Affinity Education highlights ongoing systemic issues around staffing, oversight and safety inside the billion-dollar enterprise. 
  
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• Video captures childcare worker hitting baby and laughing about it

  11-05-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation into for-profit childcare giant Affinity Education highlights ongoing systemic issues around staffing, oversight and safety inside the billion-dollar enterprise. 
  
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• One child is slapped, another vomits metal hooks: Inside an Australian childcare giant

  11-05-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  An ABC investigation into for-profit childcare giant Affinity Education highlights ongoing systemic issues around staffing, oversight and safety inside the billion-dollar enterprise. 
  
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• Childcare worker hits baby girl

  11-05-2025 20:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Video posted to social media shows a childcare worker hitting a baby girl at an Affinity Education centre in Strathfield South, in Sydney's inner west.
  
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• Parents concerned as embattled childcare provider Genius still without buyer

  07-05-2025 21:23 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 1,100 children may be left without daycare as the fate of centres run by the Genius childcare empire remains in limbo.
  
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• Millions in debt mounting as Genius childcare provider searches for lifeline

  07-05-2025 21:23 via abc.net.au
  
  More than 1,100 children may be left without daycare as the fate of centres run by the Genius childcare empire remains in limbo.
  
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• US fund managers cut corners at Australian daycares for bigger profits

  29-04-2025 01:36 via abc.net.au
  
  When a parent drops their child at their local Only About Children childcare centre in Sydney or Melbourne, they probably don't know the revenue will be cheered on the New York Stock Exchange, writes Conor Duffy.
  
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• Australia's profit-driven childcare is costing little people big time, experts warn

  29-04-2025 01:36 via abc.net.au
  
  When a parent drops their child at their local Only About Children childcare centre in Sydney or Melbourne, they probably don't know the revenue will be cheered on the New York Stock Exchange, writes Conor Duffy.
  
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• NDIS provider shut down following ABC investigation

  28-04-2025 20:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The former operator of a Sydney childcare centre where children were force-fed until they vomited, strapped in highchairs for hours and had their heads shoved into garbage bins, has been permanently banned from working in the disability support sector.
  
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• NDIS provider shut down following ABC childcare investigation

  28-04-2025 20:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The former operator of a Sydney childcare centre where children were force-fed until they vomited, strapped in highchairs for hours and had their heads shoved into garbage bins, has been permanently banned from working in the disability support sector.
  
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• 'House of horrors' childcare owner banned from NDIS

  28-04-2025 20:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The former operator of a Sydney childcare centre where children were force-fed until they vomited, strapped in highchairs for hours and had their heads shoved into garbage bins, has been permanently banned from working in the disability support sector.
  
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• Defeated by a lack of representation, some women are tuning out of politics

  25-04-2025 23:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers say women are feeling under represented in politics and struggle to speak up about the issues that matter to them.
  
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• As voter priorities shift, some women feel ignored by male politicians

  25-04-2025 23:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Researchers say women are feeling under represented in politics and struggle to speak up about the issues that matter to them.
  
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• 'High risk' childcare provider took test four times before running centre

  14-04-2025 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Thousands of documents released by the NSW education department show a lack of knowledge by childcare providers about the laws that are designed to protect children in their charge.
  
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• Childcare providers ignorant of laws to keep kids safe, NSW MP says

  14-04-2025 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Thousands of documents released by the NSW education department show a lack of knowledge by childcare providers about the laws that are designed to protect children in their charge.
  
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• Child protection failures horrify parents of boy smacked at daycare

  09-04-2025 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Victoria allows people under investigation for abuse and assault to retain their working with children clearance. Parents and advocates say it is high time that changed.
  
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• Child protection failures appal parents of boy smacked at daycare

  09-04-2025 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Victoria allows people under investigation for abuse and assault to retain their working with children clearance. Parents and advocates say it's high time that changed.
  
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• Study reveals missing out on child care as a toddler can put you behind for years

  09-04-2025 20:31 via abc.net.au
  
  New research shows educational disadvantage begins when children are as young as two if they cannot access child care. With about one-quarter of the country living in "childcare deserts", experts are demanding more from both parties.
  
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• Missing out on childcare as a toddler can put you behind for years: study

  09-04-2025 20:31 via abc.net.au
  
  New research shows educational disadvantage begins when children are as young as two if they can't access childcare. With about one quarter of the country living in "childcare deserts", experts are demanding more from both parties.
  
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• Major parties failing to act in response to childcare crisis

  07-04-2025 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Serious concerns around safety, neglect, and misconduct surfaced after a major ABC Four Corners investigation last month exposed an industry riddled with systemic failures.
  
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• More childcare horror stories exposed in massive document dump

  06-04-2025 20:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of the country's largest childcare operators are named in a damning cache of regulatory documents the NSW government and regulator tried to keep hidden from the public.
  
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• Childcare giants exposed in disturbing document dump

  06-04-2025 20:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of the country's largest childcare operators are named in a damning cache of regulatory documents the NSW government and regulator tried to keep hidden from the public.
  
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• Chinese-Australian voters reveal key issues ahead of federal election

  05-04-2025 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Two of Australia's marginal seats may have become "more marginal" after the recent redrawing of boundaries. The ABC visited the electorates ahead of the federal election to find out what issues some of those voters cared most about.
  
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• A 'national spotlight' will be on these two electorates on election day

  05-04-2025 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  Two of Australia's marginal seats may have become "more marginal" after the recent redrawing of boundaries. The ABC visited the electorates ahead of the federal election to find out what issues some of those voters cared most about.
  
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• Anthony Albanese growls with four-year-olds on the campaign trail.

  02-04-2025 07:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese read a picture book to a group of children on the campaign trail. 
  
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• The perfect election issue is being overlooked by most politicians

  01-04-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  At some point, the major political parties will have to confront the failures in Australia’s early childhood education and care system head on.
  
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