and as a society we can’t afford to not invest in our children. cut the cost of childcare by boosting public funding and paying the money directly to centres —  we don’t want parents to have to bear the burden of paying the full cost of up-front fees and we want to save them the trouble of chasing up repayments keep good quality early-education teachers in childcare by introducing a HELP fee waiver for early-education teachers; this would encourage up to 500 teachers to stay in the sector by wiping off their HELP debt for each year they stay in the childcare sector where they are so needed
favourably mentions cultural diversity, for example for freedom of religion or linguistic heritages