A thread on the brutal time equation facing Victorian families as childcare closes for most. 👇 170,000 Victorian children aged 5 and under are in enrolled in formal education and care. Many more access in-home care (including informal care from grandparents or other relatives).

There’s a reason the Doherty Institute slapped a massive warning sign on this one – it assumes optimal track and trace (ie. that there is no capacity limit on contract tracing no matter how many cases or exposure sites). 🧵 Doherty notes in their paper that this is likely unrealistic because ‘public health capacity is finite’ as I’m sure any of our hard-working contract tracers will attest

Cheaper childcare 🙌! Here’s why it makes good economic sense: #budgetreply 👇 1/Australia has some of the highest out-of-pocket childcare costs in the developed world