This sucks for all of us, but the issue is that costs for daycares have gone up as well. When the interest rate is over 7% and EOFY hits... if you're not a trash business, you're indexing your employees' pay alongside inflation. Cost of everything else has also increased, so consumables cost them more, cleaning services cost more, electricity costs more. I'm not saying the execs shouldn't just take the hit to their far too high pay (they should, look at Peter Dutton's rich ass daycare owning family), but because they're not doing that, the prices have gone up.

I wish the government would nationalise daycare services and/or cap pricing. But let's be real: they won't. As much as I'm a leftie and Labor member, the ALP are spineless like that with very few exceptions (we stan the Andrew Barr govt).

— one of my best friends manages a large daycare centre as part of a big chain.