Empress Gillard lets rip – building her own childcare empire next to ABC

Wed, 12th November 2008
Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth

With 400 ABC Learning Centres labelled “unprofitable”, the Rudd Government is planing to build new Childcare Centres within a 5 km radius of 113 ABC Learning Centres, Sophie Mirabella MP, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare revealed today. More

Gillard fails to understand what mums and dads want

Wed, 12th November 2008
Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth

Once again in Question Time today, the Deputy Prime Minister, continued to show her complete lack of understanding for the crisis facing thousands of parents and children embroiled in the ABC Learning collapse, Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth said today. More

Turnbull says Gillard misleads over ABC Learning funding

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s claim that the Coalition does not support the Government’s $22 million funding package for ABC Learning is incorrect, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement today. More

ABC Learning: confused Labor scrambles to repair damage

Fri, 7th November 2008
Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth

Whilst the Coalition welcomes the belated bailout of ABC Learning Centres, there is still no certainty for parents post-Christmas, Sophie Mirabella MP, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Childcare said today. More

Rudd Government’s ABC Learning response embarrassingly hollow

Thu, 6th November 2008
Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth

The Rudd Government’s response to the looming disaster in the child care industry in Australia following the appointment of administrators to oversee ABC Learning’s operations is severely lacking, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth, Sophie Mirabella, said today. More

Maxine must come out of hiding and outline the Government’s ABC Learning plan

Thu, 6th November 2008
Mrs Sophie Mirabella MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth

“The demise of ABC Learning today, the largest childcare provider in the country, is a devastating blow to thousands of parents, the 100,000 children who attend ABC Centres and the 12,000 employees of the company who make up a quarter of the country’s childcare workforce,” Sophie Mirabella, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare, Women and Youth said today. More