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Why Labor's childcare policy is the biggest economic news of the election campaign

  • Written by John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute

In an election campaign full of giveaways but short on serious economic reform, Labor’s proposed change to childcare support is the most important economic news.

It fits in with this year’s Grattan Institute Commonwealth Orange Book, which identified getting more women into the workforce as one of the most valuable things the next...

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