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With many expected to drop out, modelling shows a significant shortfall by 2023.
Despite extensive research highlighting the benefits of outdoor play, many parents and kinder and school educators are still reluctant to let children outside during winter.
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Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace.
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Australian parents rely on a number of factors to choose a school for their child. These include school performance, location and social connections.
The parents have been consistently blamed for behaviour found to be mostly caused by a birth injury.
My 15-year-old son hates it when I start a story by saying "back in my day", but that's exactly what I'm going to do here.
We've just started getting all the bills and now we are freaking out.