Another website won’t fix anything

The Prime Minister’s announcement to improve the mychild.gov.au website is yet another Rudd Re-Run and you can only expect more broken promises and Labor failure as a result of it. Labor said they were going to sort out fuel and grocery prices with FuelWatch and Grocery Watch. Both have since been abandoned. Now they say improving the mychild.gov.au website will help parents access before and after school care. A website confirming to parents that child care is expensive and not readily available is hardly going to fix the problem. Labor also claims its crowning achievement in education is the My School website that has sparked recriminations and undermined the effectiveness of NAPLAN testing. Kevin Rudd simply can’t be believed when he says Labor will expand before and after care places. In 2007 Kevin Rudd promised to build 260 child care centres, the Rudd Government abandoned this promise after building only 38 of them. The Coalition will help ensure child care can be more flexible, affordable and accessible by getting the Productivity Commission to do a proper review of the child care system. August 7, 2013