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November 30, 2025

Australia news live: Greens call for 25% gas export tax; house price surge wipes out benefits of three interest rate cuts

Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May says gas corporations have created a “crisis” that Australian households have had to pay for. Follow today’s news...

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November 11, 2025

Australia news live: big banks lend $43bn to fossil fuel companies; NSW to spend $130m on beds for homeless

Analysis says $30bn given to expand existing coal, oil and gas projects. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking...

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September 25, 2025

Brisbane kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art

Craigslea kindergarten’s management committee told parents the centre owed over $40,000 and the fee could help pay off the debt

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September 24, 2025

Childcare executives paid six-figure bonuses despite outrage over alleged abuse and safety failures

Generous salaries have sparked calls for boards to consider clawing back some of the money paid to bosses

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September 14, 2025

Secret rating system kept parents in dark about safety fears at NSW childcare centre

Case in which parents were not told centre was in the ‘very high risk’ cohort illustrates a glaring safety gap, critics argueGet our

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August 21, 2025

Database to track childcare workers and mobile phone bans on the table as Australian ministers set to meet

Governments scramble to establish national register of workers after allegations of abuse of children in early education, but states and territories...

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August 20, 2025

Childcare needs a ‘fundamental reset’ to improve safety. These are Victoria’s key recommendations

State to accept all 22 recommendations as federal government releases names of 30 childcare centres subject to compliance action

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August 15, 2025

States and territories agree to ‘long overdue’ reforms to working with children checks by year’s end, attorney general says

Michelle Rowland says ‘consistency’ across jurisdictions will ensure workers banned in one state or territory are ‘banned in all’, but rules out...

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August 10, 2025

Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy

Exclusive: Government could redirect billions in existing spending on the childcare subsidy and introduce a daily flat fee for familiesLabor has...

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July 31, 2025

After-school carer charged with producing child abuse material at six facilities across northern Sydney

David James, 26, was arrested in late 2024 and charged with 13 offences but details not revealed until now due to court non-publication order

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