To support national policy initiatives in early childhood education and to determine reasons
for low enrolment in services from families in disadvantaged areas, the authors investigated …

ISSUES OF CHILDCARE AFFORDABILITY, availability and flexibility in Australia have long
restricted choice for parents wanting to use formal child care. To address these issues, the …

THIS ARTICLE IDENTIFIES AND examines a critical juncture in Australian early childhood
education and care (ECEC) policy history in order to understand the contemporary …

THIS ARTICLE ILLUMINATES THE significance of the Child Care Act 1972 (Cwlth) as a
critical juncture in the development of Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) …

Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major
national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care …

In pronouncements of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy the importance of
quality appears as a seemingly irrefutable concept. Yet, attention to ECEC policy history …

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been impacted by COVID-19. Australia's
ECEC has not been spared this impact. Australia's ECEC sector was positioned as an …

This paper presents lesser known accounts from policy makers whose experiences as elite
informants span 40 or so years in Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) …

This article provides an overview of the Australian Federal Government initiatives in the area
of early childhood with regard to the provision of early childhood education and care. These …

The roots of lifelong health and development are established in early childhood, in the
prenatal period to age five, when children's brains and bodies are being formed. Social …