Tell your politician: Children deserve better support!

Tell your MP: Children deserve a better deal!

The Federal election has been called for May 21, making now the time to let our leaders know what families need.

Currently, Australian children, parents and carers have a raw deal. We have one of the shortest and least adequate Paid Parental Leave schemes and pay some of the highest fees for early learning & care in the world. It’s not good enough!

The solution lies in the government’s hands: they can improve our systems so parents and carers can make ends meet and care for their children.

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Tell your MP: Children deserve a better deal!

The Federal election has been called for May 21, making now the time to let our leaders know what families need.

Currently, Australian children, parents and carers have a raw deal. We have one of the shortest and least adequate Paid Parental Leave schemes and pay some of the highest fees for early learning & care in the world. It’s not good enough!

The solution lies in the government’s hands: they can improve our systems so parents and carers can make ends meet and care for their children.

It’s your politician’s job to listen to their voters, so tell them now what children and families deserve.

We’ve made it super easy with a template email ready to send off. (Politicians are more likely to pay attention to personalised emails, so if you have time to include why this is important to your family, go for it!)

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I am writing today to ask you, my local MP, to support policy reform for Paid Parental Leave, Early Childhood Education and Care, and Outside School Hours Care.

As a parent, I know too well that families in Australia currently pay some of the most expensive early learning fees in the world. We also have one of the shortest paid parental leave schemes in the world. I know this makes life difficult for too many families and their children.

I want what’s best for my children and my family: I need to be able to care for my children and be able to provide for them. We deserve affordable, accessible and high quality early learning and care, and my children deserve to thrive in safe, nurturing environments both in and outside of the home. All early educators deserve to be well paid, valued and respected.

I would like to see you and your party make election commitments on:
- One year of government-funded Paid Parental Leave to be shared between parents, at full pay including super.
- Universal access to high quality Early Childhood Education and Care and Outside of Hours School Care, delivered by a well supported and properly paid workforce.

These policy reforms would drastically transform and improve the lives of Australian families and rank us as a world leader in regard to parenting support. They are the pathway to progress on gender and income equality; healthy child development and family wellbeing; educational outcomes; and economic growth and prosperity.

I will be basing my vote on these issues at the upcoming Federal election.

You and your party can make a difference not only to me but also to millions of other Australian families. I urge you to make the aforementioned election commitments.

Yours sincerely,

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