If this isn’t the end of the grotesque globalist social experiment of ‘universal childcare’, then it’s hard to imagine what would be. If the industry survives these scandals – if the Albanese government continues to promote and fund universal childcare – then the only conclusion is that this is a society which cares vastly more about money than the welfare of its children.
This is, after all, the explicit justification given for universal childcare, by none other than Melbourne’s leftist-paper-of-record, the Age:
Childcare is not simply childcare. It is, as the federal government knows, a vital building block in the way modern Australian families live, and it underpins our economy. Put simply, parents cannot work productively unless they can outsource this care for part of the day.
And who gives a toss about the children?
The most recent horror to emerge from the underbelly of universal childcare is yet another prolific paedophile who lurked within the system for years, abusing dozens of children. Even worse, this sick individual was jerking off into kids’ food, leading to urgent testing of thousands of children for possible STDs.
And this is just one case: the latest in a string of horrific revelations of abuse, physical and sexual in childcare centres.
Last year, childcare worker Ashley Griffith was convicted of more than 300 child sex offences, committed over 20 years of working in childcare in multiple countries. In 2023, Muhammad Ali of the ACT was convicted of indecently touching a boy while working at a Canberra daycare center. But male paedophiles are only the tip of the iceberg of childcare horrors: in 2024 alone, there were more than 26,000 cases of sexual and physical abuse of children in daycare, perpetrated by male and female workers.
Perhaps the most shocking thing about all this is that it’s been allowed to carry on in plain sight – because there’s too much money to be made in ripping children from their families for the better part of every weekday, from almost as soon as their mothers can resume their preferred role as economic productive units. It’s not just the childcare industry at fault: governments and the academic-industrial complex are all complicit in this shame.
Thousands of students are getting fast-tracked qualifications to work in childcare centres and it’s compromising safety standards, experts warn.
Some of these courses are being used as visa pathways, some stripped of substance, others entirely fake. Education providers are cashing in, pumping out tens of thousands of students – some with no prior childcare experience – and pushing them into centres with minimal oversight.
A cache of regulatory documents has also revealed widespread gaps in basic care: educators not understanding child protection policies, mandatory reporting duties, or even safe sleep and hygiene practices.
The ABC inadvertently gives the game away:
Millions of dollars in fees, minimum interest in childcare.
Which describes the entire ‘childcare’ industry, from its very concept. It’s nothing to do with actually caring about children: it’s only ever been about reinforcing humans’ sole role in the globalist system, as obedient economic production units. While we’ve been busy banning battery hens, we’ve produced generations of battery humans.
The drive for universal childcare dovetails neatly with that other destructive policy of the globalist elite: mass immigration.
To become an early childhood teacher in Australia, a four-year degree is typical. But some providers are offering graduate diplomas that take as little as 10 months to complete, with no prior teaching or childcare experience required.
One institution pushing it hard is Southern Cross University (SCU), a 31-year-old institution based in regional NSW, with campuses in Lismore, Coffs Harbour and the Gold Coast. It also has a presence in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.
2023 marked a turning point when it bought out a private education partner and ramped up its international student intake. Fast-track courses like childcare were aggressively marketed through education and immigration agents.
In just two years, 7.30 understands an estimated 6,000 students have enrolled in its 10-month graduate diploma in early education – a course marketed by third parties to both local and international students as a shortcut to becoming a qualified teacher. At $25,000 per student, that’s around $150 million in fees.
The majority are international students, some are men in their 40s and 50s, with backgrounds in fields like IT, engineering and finance – not early childhood education or teaching.
And we’re supposed to be surprised when stuff like this happens?
Some of SCU’s students have been terminated or asked to leave by various centres, or have been put on an action plan and possible deferment of a placement during their 30-day placements after the centre reported incidents, including falling asleep during shifts, ignoring distressed children, and engaging in inappropriate physical contact.
Documents seen by 7.30 refer to one student caught trying to take children into private spaces unsupervised.
“Student has been taking children away from educators alone, continuously, has not responded or stopped when asked,” internal records state […]
Another student was noted as being terminated for inappropriate and unwanted physical conduct with children including cuddling children who didn’t want it, rubbing a child’s chest and lifting a child’s dress […]
One was asked to leave after shaking a toddler.
Yet, in all the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching, no one stops to ask the single most important question: should we be doing this?
This is something no human society outside the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th century has ever foisted on its youngest children. Even the grotesquely militaristic Spartans waited until their kids were seven. Spare me the ‘it takes a village’ blatherskite, too. Even tribal cultures never handed their children over to complete strangers from almost the moment they were born.
For the past 40 years, Western parents have been relentlessly gaslit into blindly submitting to the most grotesque Marxist social experiment since the Great Leap Forward. At least the Chinese parents forced to surrender their newborn offspring to state-run creches had the excuse of being forced at gunpoint. Western parents were just bullied, finger-wagged and lied to.
The other excuse is that ‘it’s impossible to raise a family on a single income these days’. There may be some truth to this, although given the explosion in people living alone, the idea that it’s impossible to afford a home on a single income just doesn’t wash. How many times, too, do we hear women complaining that they only work to pay the childcare fees?
The harsh truth, then, is that it’s just difficult to raise a family and maintain the lifestyle newer generations have come to expect.
Is it worth it? Do the big house, the two new cars and the annual overseas holidays, justify the obvious risk of turning your precious children over to universal childcare?
Which do people want more? Healthy, happy children raised by a loving parent, or the indulged lifestyle of the Western middle class?
