Australia along with many other Western nations are wrestling with the challenge of falling birth rates: the result of shifting cultural attitudes around how we view having and raising children. And while immigration can be a short term economic solution, it comes with demographic challenges of its own.
As Australia considers implementing a universal childcare policy, Erica Komisar, Virginia Tapscott and Peter Costello discuss the merits of different pro-natal approaches and the drawbacks of encouraging greater levels of institutional care for young children.
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The Hon. Peter Costello AC was Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia for a record term and brought down 12 Federal Budgets. He established Australia’s Sovereign Fund, the Future Fund, which he went on to Chair for a decade. He has also been Chairman of the largest Australian media company.
Virginia Tapscott is a parenting advocate and columnist based on a farm in Southern NSW. She has worked on podcasts, columns, and features with a range of national media platforms and co-founded the Parents Work Collective, which advocates for better support systems for parents.
Erica Komisar LCSW is a clinical social worker, author, psychoanalyst, psychological consultant, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years.
Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large on The Australian newspaper and a former Editor-in-Chief of the paper. He writes on Australian politics, public policy, history and international relations and has written 12 books on the Australian politics and history. He is a Fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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23 окт 2024