Submission to the Senate Education and Employment Committee on Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs and Families Child Care Package).
The NFAW is a non- politically aligned feminist organisation committed to examining the potentially differential impact of policies and their outcomes for men and women and whether the consequences of policies, intended or unintended adversely affect women.
The Bill aims to introduce major reforms to the child care system by simplifying it and by addressing key elements of the child care system - its affordability, flexibility and accessibility. It represents the latest response to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Child Care and Early Childhood Learning.
NFAW has a strong policy of support for women to make their own life choices – to choose to be a home maker, to choose to do paid work, to choose part time work if that is a real choice. Responsibility for bearing and rearing children, rightly or wrongly falls mostly on women.