Until recently, Australia was a country that scored badly on any international measure of childcare. For instance, it came near the bottom on the recent UNICEF Innocenti report card. But in the past year there have been some new developments in policy and practice that have put Australia back on the childcare map.
The new Labour government led by Kevin Rudd has paid much more attention to childcare. And the messy collapse of the corporate giant ABC Learning, which was the biggest operator by far in Australia, has led to a rethink about the role of government and of the private sector in childcare.
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