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Greens to push for free early childhood education

The federal Greens have named access to free, universal early childhood education as one of their priority policies in the event of a minority government.

In a wealthy country like ours everyone should be able to afford childcare, but too many families are struggling with the cost.

What Labor's doing isn't working, and Peter Dutton would take childcare backwards.