Bill Shorten announces $1.75 billion plan to subsidise pre-school for three year olds

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ill Shorten announced on Thursday that a Labor government would finance 15 hours a week of subsidised preschool education for three year olds from 2021.

With education an election battleground, Shorten is linking a new initiative on early childhood learning to the opposition’s broader schools policy, in which Labor is promising to out-spend the Coalition.

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Policies and Public Adminstration; Political Sciences