17/06/2026
The childcare industry, I.e. the unions are holding the taxpayers to ransom.
How many other workers get a $10,000 pay rise courtesy of the taxpayer? Especially an industry rife with child abusers.
Yes childcare workers are low paid but so are stay at home parents. Wouldn’t it be better to pay parents to raise their own children and reskill childcare workers into high value high paying roles?
This pay rise will increase taxes on workers so they will work longer which means they need more childcare. It’s a vicious cycle.
People First will pay childcare directly to parents rather than allow our country to be blackmailed by unions.
Childcare, like Superannuation is just another Labor sacred cow that is used to both push and fund their own agenda.
••••••••••••
August 2024
“Taxpayers will directly fund a 15 per cent wage rise for 200,000 childcare workers in a $3.6bn pre-election cash splash.
Daycare staff will pocket an extra $10,000 a year, on average.”
July 2026
“Anthony Albanese has committed a further $3.6bn to lock in a 15 per cent pay rise for more than 200,000 early childhood educators, averting threatened mass walk-offs at childcare centres.
The United Workers Union had threatened national stoppages unless the government committed to the funding, while the Australian Childcare Alliance, representing 2500 childcare operators, warned daycare fees would go up by 10 per cent before Christmas unless the government extended its two-year wage subsidy.”
V
“Alleged abuse by childcare worker Joshua Brown sparks $4.4m payout to 893 families.
This childcare worker’s arrest triggered testing for STIs in 2000 kids in a case that horrified the nation. There’s one disturbing detail the government kept secret.
893 parents received the Victorian government’s immediate needs payment of $5000 between July last year and February 2026, because their child attended a centre where Mr Brown was employed and required precautionary medical testing.