childcare is a ‘canary in mine’ warning for wider problems in policy delivery
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It’s such a familiar pattern. When a big scandal breaks publicly, governments jump into action, ministers rush out to say they’ll “do something” instantly.
But how come they hadn’t seen problems that had been in plain sight?
Who can forget then-workplace relations minister Tony Burke insisting he’d been unaware,...