Q. Thinking about childcare and early learning, do you agree or disagree with the following policies?
| Total agree | Total disagree | Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||
| Ensuring all children have access to two years of early learning (e.g. kindy or preschool program) before they started school | 77% | 12% | 32% | 45% | 8% | 4% | 11% | |
| Removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work | 42% | 43% | 16% | 26% | 27% | 16% | 14% | |
| Ensuring children from poor or disadvantaged children get the support they need to access two years of early learning (e.g. kindy or preschool program) before they start school. | 81% | 9% | 37% | 44% | 6% | 3% | 9% |
There was strong agreement with the policies that all children have access to two years of early learning (77% agree) and that children from poor or disadvantaged children get the support they need to access two years of early learning (81%).
However, respondents were split over removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work (42% agree/43% disagree).
Households with children were more likely to agree that all children have access to two years of early learning (85%) but were also evenly divided over removing support for children whose parents are not in the workforce and are not actively looking for work (45% agree/45% disagree). Those most likely to oppose removing support were women (49% disagree), Greens voters (58%) and aged 65+ (52%).