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By Deborah Brennan
This publication, now in a revised variation, is a political historical past of kid care in Australia from the Nineties to the Nineties. as soon as supplied via philanthropic teams and to be had purely to these deemed underprivileged, baby care has now develop into a part of the mainstream political time table. Deborah Brennan presents an in-depth research of coverage advancements during this major zone because the Commonwealth grew to become occupied with 1972. The revised variation presents an in depth research of the shifts in coverage below exertions in addition to an updated account of advancements below the Howard executive considering the fact that 1996.
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The kindergarten unions relied significantly on state government assistance and some ministers of education were known to be extremely hostile to out-of-home care for young children. The New South Wales Minister for Public Instruction, Country Party member David Drummond, although accepting that sessional kindergarten programs could be of benefit to poor children, was vehemently opposed to day nurseries. He regarded the care of children in group settings on a full-day basis as the beginnings of a 'state hatchery'.
The salaries paid to the director (£300) and first assistant teacher (£200) were determined by the commonwealth and were well above those that other pre-school teachers received. The high wages engendered some resentment; fears were expressed that these lavishly funded centres might entice staff away from other kindergartens. At the inaugural AAPSCD conference Alice Creswick (Convenor of the conference Garden Party Committee as well as the Finance Committee) voiced the concern that 'the best and most highly-qualified girls will leave our local kindergartens to take up these posts; and though we do not grudge them the promotion, they can ill be spared' (Creswick 1939: 178).
During the Depression many kindergartens added a 'meal and sleep' program to the traditional morning session in order to ensure that children had at least one good meal and a rest each day. Average weight gains of one to one-and-a-half pounds per month were reported after the children commenced this program which provided them with wholemeal bread, salad, fruit, cocoa, figs and dates. Of course, relatively few children attended the kindergartens and day nurseries and the scale of the problem was vast.