Talk presented at ANU, FaCS and University of Melbourne, July 2003
In both Australia and the United States today, child care is very much on the political and social agenda, a concern not only for working parents but also for policy-makers seeking to ‘reconcile work and family’ and, increasingly, to address issues arising from welfare reform.
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