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Victoria's child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers

  • Written by Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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How do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done?

This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six weeks.

The Stage 4 restrictions announced by the Victorian government to contain the city’s COVID-19 outbreak include closing all child-care centres for the first time...

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