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Cheaper child care to ease pressures on working parents

Hundreds of thousands of children will be guaranteed subsidised early childhood education, as a “catch-22” that stopped parents from accessing help is scrapped. The three-day guarantee, first announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in late 2024, will replace the previous government’s activity test that provided…

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