Is childcare broken? | That's Business with Alan Kohler

Childcare has become a system that almost everyone relies on, but very few think is working properly. Families pay a lot, quality is uneven, and after years of marketisation the sector is now dominated by for-profit providers. So how did Australia end up here? Why is the system still so expensive, why does the data point to clear differences between for-profit and not-for-profit care, and does fixing it now require more than tinkering at the edges? Adelajda Soltysik is one of Australia's foremost experts on childcare. She joins Alan Kohler to examine the deeper fault lines in the system - from the shift away from direct government funding, to the limits of means-tested subsidies, the case for a 100 per cent subsidy, the lessons from Canada, the role of private equity, and why some of the best community-run centres are still struggling to survive. Senior Policy Advisor with the Centre for Policy Development Adelajda Soltysik joins Alan Kohler to unpack it all on That's Business with Alan Kohler. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/australia-could-nationalise-childcare-but-it-wont-happen/106550648 Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia