The Early Education Show

What does the election result mean for early education?

The podcast team gather to look at the surprising election result that has seen Scott Morrison returned as Prime Minister of a Coalition Government. What does this result mean for the sector, and what should advocates do over the next three years?

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What has the 2019 election told us about early education advocacy? (LIVE from the ELAA Conference)

As a special treat for our 100th episode, we recorded an episode in front of a live audience at ELAA's Early Childhood Education Conference 2019. We discuss how we all took our first steps into advocacy, what the election campaign has told us about sector advocacy and how we'd create our own advocacy campaigns.

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BONUS: Rort Alert!

The bonuses keep on comin’… Lisa and Liam really wanted to talk through the recent media reports on a $5 million fraud operation in the Family Day Care sector, so we called friend of the podcast Karl and talked through this bizarre story.

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BONUS: Election 2019 and the early education sector

Another quick bonus episode this week. Lisa and Liam talk about Lisa’s election articles for The Framework, a free website for sector news, analysis and opinion. We discuss why politics matters, and the interesting reaction from educators to recent election commitments.

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BONUS: Labor's early education announcements

On Sunday Labor announced policies on lowering early education costs for families and raising wages for early childhood educators. In this extra episode Lisa, Leanne and Liam take a look at these policies and what they mean for the sector.

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Educator Wellbeing Project Stakeholder Roundtable

This week Liam gets an update on the Early Childhood Educator Wellbeing Project (ECEWP) we covered earlier in the year. Liam speaks to Tamara Cumming, one of the researchers leading the Project; Leisa Wright, Centre Director at Harrison Early Childhood Centre, one of the services taking part in the Project; and Leanne Gibbs, who facilitated a session at the Project’s recent Stakeholder Roundtable.

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Ethically operating a for-profit ECEC service (with Tamika Hicks)

This week we chat with Tamika Hicks, the Manager of Cardinia Lakes Early Learning Centre, a standalone service in Victoria. Tamika is an advocate and activist with a focus on quality - how does she approach balancing ethical approaches to early education with successfully operating a business?

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Budget 2019 and early childhood education

Lisa and Liam quickly scour the budget papers (and Twitter), before giving our immediate reactions to the Federal Government’s Budget for 2019/20.

Then, in anticipation that we were probably not going to like this Budget, Lisa dazzles us all with her fantasy Federal Budget for early education.

2019 Federal Budget
Lisa’s Fantasy Budget

Design and implementation of the Child Care Package

This week Lisa and Liam have a brief chat about this weekend's NSW Election, before tackling the Australian National Audit Office's review of the design and implementation of the Government's Child Care Package. We speak to four people in the sector to get a range of views on how well (or not) the Package was delivered.

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Engaging with social justice in early education services (with Dr Red Ruby Scarlet)

This week Lisa and Liam chat with activist, artist and researcher Dr Red Ruby Scarlet about why services who work with young children should engage with issues of social justice.

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