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Childcare workers responsible for caring for children in their most critical years of development are among the lowest-paid workers in Australia, The New Daily can reveal.
On Tuesday, roughly 6500 early childhood educators from more than 300 centres walked off the job to protest against low wages.
Workers with a certificate III are paid as little as $21.29 per hour – almost half the national average wage for full-time adult workers.
That is less than what a McDonald’s worker, an electrician and a retail worker earns for full-time work.