All they got was a $40k fine.

Yes and his party has suggested increasing educator ratios from 1 educator to every 11 children to 1 to 50.

It really upsets me to see this, and points to the lack of funding for regulatory inspections. This should have been more heavily inspected, especially as they’ll provider kept failing centres.

In my nursery room I set out to outright ban high chairs and other restrictive devices from the space late last year, to know children were going hours in them when I wasn’t even comfortable with seeing them for a minute or two once they want out is horrific.

Yes all early learning centres are rated by ACEQUA and you can search their database online:

https://www.acecqa.gov.au/resources/national-registers/services

“There’s a certain level of decorum that I expect from political leaders, especially in front of cameras,” Nate Vance - who spent three years volunteering with the Ukrainian military after Russia’s full-scale invasion - told the BBC.

Dude even volunteered.