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More than a third of us live in areas with severe childcare shortages, study finds | 7.30 - Transcript

Mitchell Institute research on the ABC

In the first research of its kind in Australia, the Mitchell Institute has examined access to childcare in over 50,000 neighbourhoods across the country.

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