Labor looking after families - Child Care

[Valkie]

Perhaps parents should look after their own kids.

Possibly bring them up in a family relationship.

Maybe even ......dare I say it......take responsibility for the child they brought into the world.

I don't believe in child care subsidies
If you want kids, you should bring them up.

Otherwise, don't have kids.

Exactly!

However, being a single parent, like I was when my daughter was 5 and I walked out. I left him everything we had, except a case full of clothes. Truly.

Then I started again in Canberra.

He died in 2006 from an aneurysm .. he had NOTHING to leave our daughter.

I arrived in Canberra with a 5 year old daughter and $300 in the savings account. After a few months I GOT A JOB! Then I saved for a deposit on a house!

Some people really do expect everybody else to do something for them. NOBODY CARES .... just get on with LIFE.

In some circumstances, there is a moral obligation to assist those in need.
Those who through no fault of their own have been thrust into situations that require extraordinary help.

I'm against greedy couples who want everything
Who want their own incomes to buy and spend.

If the want kids, they should sacrifice for the child's sake

We have so many uncontrollable children now days because they are not loved enough by their parents, for the parents to look after them.
Then the kids do not know true love and devotion.
They look for other things to fill that void
Drugs, protests, cults, crime

All because of selfish parents.

[Gordon]

Red......

What's happening at the moment is low wage earners and people who are barely working or unemployed are getting the maximum subsidy while higher earners are getting next to nothing, and often not working or working part time because it's barely worth it.

The Labor plan will just be more of the same.
The subsidies have jacked up childcare rates and more subsidies will make it worse.

I honestly reckon this is a care where the Govt should either butt out, or take it over entirely and my preference is for the latter.

All childcare centers would be either Govt run or not for profit