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June 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to come up with “new answers” for Australia’s childcare sector, which says it is facing a crisis in wages and staff retention.
In what Ms Gillard described as the start of a continuing discussion, union leaders and childcare providers gathered in Sydney on Thursday to share ideas on how to reform the sector.
Although Ms Gillard said families were receiving “record levels” of government support, they continued to feel burdened by childcare fees.
At the same time, workers’ wages were still relatively low and the sector was struggling with affordability.
“I do want to see us get to some new answers in the next few months,” Ms Gillard told reporters after the meeting.
“We all want to make childcare more affordable for the future. We want to keep our focus on quality and staff turnover.”
Assistant national secretary of the childcare union United Voice, Sue Lines, said the current system was “broken”, and the government needed to overhaul wages and the funding system.
“We have got educators earning $18.51 an hour and they are leaving the sector at 180 a week. That is a crisis,” Ms Lines told reporters.
But she rejected calls by the opposition for a Productivity Commission report, saying the sector couldn’t wait for solutions for another two to three years.
“A Productivity Commission inquiry – really, into the cost of nannies – is not the solution.”
Meanwhile, Greens spokeswoman for early childhood education, Sarah Hanson-Young, has called on the government to move away from providing rebates to parents towards the “much cleaner solution” of funding services directly.
“Funding those services directly, looking at how we can make access to services more flexible must be at the top of the prime minister’s list,” she told reporters.
Ms Gillard said she was not going to get into a “rule-in rule-out game” of what action the government would take.
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