by Lisa Bryant
Minns has picked the wrong fight with preschool teachers
They're loved, their pay is unfair, and their patience has run out. The Sydney Morning Herald didn’t want this piece - maybe it’s not newsworthy enough, or maybe preschool teachers just aren’t seen as the sort of people who march. But they are marching today, and they deserve to be heard. So here it is, where we don’t have to wait for permission to say what matters.
by Lisa Bryant
When will governments say 'maybe we shouldn't be trusting these companies to provide education and care'?
Could there be any clearer evidence that early education and care in corporate and private equity hands is not about children? Have you seen the headlines in the last few days? From the ABC: “Childcare giant G8 cut unorthodox $26 million deal with Darren Misquitta's Genius despite warnings.” From the Age/SMH: “Childcare executive told worried parents to stop being emotional in wake of sex abuse charges”.
by Lisa Bryant
Why do the things that get created to keep children safe inadvertently make them less safe?
By increasing the workload of directors and educators... Yesterday a big new Bill was presented to the NSW Parliament - the Children (Education and Care Services National Law Application) Amendment Bill 2025).
by Lisa Bryant
Is today the day the obliteration is complete?
Sometimes I don’t know what the answer is but I know there is a question that needs to be asked. They were always an impediment to capitalism once laws were introduced stopping them from being used as actual labourers. Somehow they needed to be cared for and prepared for their roles as future workers. Schools then childcare centres, then education and care centres, were developed.
by Lisa Bryant
My plea to let educators do their job.
What I said in my opening remarks to the NSW Legislative House Inquiry into the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in NSW. What I said in my opening remarks to the NSW Legislative House Inquiry into the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in NSW.
by Lisa Bryant
Red tape, reform, and the real cost of bureaucracy
Every new regulatory or bureaucratic requirement introduced to ensure private equity and corporate providers do the right thing by children also impacts small, standalone, community-based services. Every new regulatory or bureaucratic requirement introduced to ensure private equity and corporate providers do the right thing by children also impacts small, standalone, community-based services.
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none of that super strength, invisibility, etc.
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by Lisa Bryant
Unsafe by Design: The Big Business of Early Education and Care in Australia
CCTV won't make children safe in our education and care services, structural reform that attacks the root causes of why they are not, might. CCTV won't make children safe in our education and care services, structural reform that attacks the root causes of why they are not, might.
by Lisa Bryant
Many of us already knew the childcare sector was in crisis. The question is: what are we going to do about it?
Is it finally time for bold, radical action? I know what I think. The absolute minimum a parent should expect when dropping off their child at an early childhood education and care centre is that their child will be cared for and safe. But according to shocking allegations, reported on Tuesday, that basic expectation may not have been met for at least some children in Victorian childca…
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