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Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia's privatisation push. It's time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin

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    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The central statement of the ideology driving public policy in this area is the Productivity Commission's 2016 report on competition in human services.
47% : Brennan observed that aspects of Australia's "highly marketized approach" to childcare will "work against equitable, high quality provision unless moderated". "Accordingly, I suggest measures to strengthen and expand not for-profit provision, attention to the financial strategies of large investor-backed and private equity companies, and regulatory strategies to discourage providers whose business models and labour practices do not align well with the National Cabinet vision," she wrote.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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