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COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS)

• Episode #119 What does the coronavirus outbreak mean for the early education sector?

• Episode #120 How can we stay healthy at work during a pandemic?

• Episode #121 How can we stay connected to children and families during isolation?

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

• Episode #9: Children’s Rights in Australia and early childhood education

• Episode #12 Talking politics with young children

• Episode #42 Children's Book Week

• Episode #43 Children's rights and the media

• Episode #44 Child Protection Week

• Episode #49 National Children's Week 2017

• Episode #57 ARACY Report Card: The wellbeing of young Australians

• Episode #83 After the Apology: What services need to do to keep children safe

• Episode #117: How is Australia faring on protecting children’s rights? (with Megan Mitchell, National Children's Commissioner)

EDUCATORS & THE PROFESSION

• Episode #2: The Early Years Workforce Strategy

• Episode #3: Where to now for educators?

• Episode #6: Push-down curriculum / Professional identity

• Episode #22: International Women's Day

• Episode #28: An educator's place is in the resistance

• Episode #35 Trauma-Informed Practice (with Beth Macgregor)

• Episode #36 Trauma-Informed Practice: Educators' Stories

• Episode #46 Flying squads and the “look of quality” (with Dr. Deborah Harcourt)

• Bonus Episode #5: Fair Work Throws Out Pay Equity Case

• Episode #55 The Equal Remuneration Case (with Verena Heron)

• Episode #56 Men in early childhood education

• Episode #58 Should early education services celebrate International Women’s Day?

• Episode #59 Does it matter how early education services are marketed?

• Episode #60 Big Steps Big Walk Off (with Bettina Moltke)

• Episode #61 Voices from the Big Walk Off

• Episode #64 RTOs and the educator workforce

• Episode #75 The use of rich language with young children in ECEC settings (with Associate Professor Sheila Degotardi)

• Episode #84 Cultivating capabilities in early childhood education (with Charlene Smith)

• Episode #85 Why are early education environments all looking the same? (with Professor Deborah Harcourt)

• Episode #90 Early Childhood Educator Wellbeing Project (with Sandie Wong, Tamara Cumming and Helen Logan)

• Episode #95 Engaging with social justice in early education services (with Dr Red Ruby Scarlet)

• Episode #99 Educator Wellbeing Project Stakeholder Roundtable

• Episode #102 Professional identity (with Catharine Hydon)

• Episode #103 The Reggio Emilia Educational Project (with Jan Millikan)

• Episode #108 Is too much expected of Centre Directors?

• Episode #111 Recruitment and retention (with Melissa Armstrong)

• Episode #113 Celebrations in early education services

• Episode #115 The Hive & Collaboration 4 Learning

• Episode #118 Working with young children during the climate crisis

GOVERNMENT AND POLICY

• Episode #1: Early education in the new parliament

• Episode #2: Australia Vs. The World in ECEC provision

• Episode #5: NSW early education funding / OECD Education at a Glance Report 2016

• Episode #7: Budget Based Funded Services

• Episode #8: Kate Ellis at the National Press Club

• Episode #10: Extending funded preschool to 3-year-olds

• Episode #11: Politics 101

• Episode #18: The return of the Jobs for Families package

• Episode #25: JFF: WTF!

• Episode #29: The National Partnership Agreement (Eurovision Remix)

• Episode #33 Labor's Early Education Consultation: An Audio Submission

• Episode #41 Getting ready for the Jobs for Families reforms (with Karl Hessian)

• Episode #45 State of Early Learning in Australia 2017 (with Sam Page, Early Childhood Australia CEO)

• Episode #48 Are greedy developers and landlords gouging families?

• Episode #50 Early Learning Everyone Benefits - Children's Week Event at Parliament House

• Episode #54 Lifting Our Game (with Professor Deb Brennan)

• Episode #65 Budget 2018 and early childhood education

• Episode #66 What would a Labor Government do with early education policy?

• Episode #68 Are we ready for the new Child Care Package? (with Karl Hessian)

• Episode #71 The first week of the Child Care Subsidy

• Episode #72 The challenges of “flexible childcare”

• Episode #77 Goodbye Simon Birmingham, Hello Dan Tehan

• Episode #82 Labor’s new early education policies (with Amanda Rishworth and Megan O’Connell)

• Episode #91 What are the early education advocacy battles of 2019?

• Episode #92 Early Childhood Teachers and the National Quality Framework

• Episode #96 Design and implementation of the Child Care Package

• Episode #97 Budget 2019 and early childhood education

• Episode #101 What does the election result mean for early education?

• Episode #110 All the Reviews News

• Episode #114 A star (ratings system) is born (with Anthony Semann)

NATIONAL QUALITY FRAMEWORK

• Episode #2: Apps and products for sharing documentation

• Episode #4: How do we innovate while being regulated?

• Episode #8: Does language matter?

• Episode #13: The quality ratings system

• Episode #21: The National Quality Agenda Review

• Episode #30 The New NQS Part 1 - Educational program and practice (with Rhonda Livingstone)

• Episode #32: Quality ratings in Preschool and LDC

• Episode #37 The New NQS Part 2 - Children's health and safety

• Episode #38 Community-based management and the NQF

• Episode #52 Are families the “customers” of early childhood education?

• Episode #62 The role of the Educational Leader (with Doreen Blyth, Educational Leaders Association)

• Episode #67 NQF challenges in Western Australia and the Northern Territory (with Tina Holtom, CEO of Child Australia)

• Episode #74 How is the sector supporting services rated Working Towards?

• Episode #81 Being an Approved Provider (with Jenni Hutchins, CEO of Big Fat Smile)

• Episode #86 Developing and reviewing policies in early education services

• Episode #88 From Working Towards to Exceeding (with Wendy Mackay and Anna Whitty)

• Episode #93 Excellence in School Age Care (with Forrest Out of School Hours Care)

• Episode #105 Documentation and planning in a digital world (with Melanie Elderton)

• Episode #109 Family Day Care (with Anita Jovanovski)

• Episode #112 Working with infants and toddlers (with Dr Andi Salamon & Lauren Hibberson)

INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES

• Episode #7: Budget Based Funded Services

• Episode #31: National Reconciliation Week

• Episode #39 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day

• Episode #104 Engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives (with Jessica Staines)

• Bonus Episode #12: A national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people (with Richard Weston, CEO of SNAICC)

CHILDREN IN DETENTION

• Episode #1: Children in detention

• Episode #26: “One child in detention is too many”

INTERVIEWS

• Episode #11 Chris Steel Interview

• Episode #15 Sibylle Seidler Interview (STEM)

• Bonus Episode #3 Interview with Jenny Mikakos, Victorian Minister for Families and Children

• Episode #19 Professor Frank Oberklaid Interview (Part 1)

• Episode #20 Professor Frank Oberklaid Interview (Part 2)

• Episode #24 Interview with Kate Ellis MP, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development

• Episode #31 National Reconciliation Week (with Alex Shain)

• Episode #34 Interview with Sarah Mitchell, NSW Minister for Early Childhood Education

• Episode #40 Interview with Kate Washington, NSW Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education

• Episode #47 Interview with Sarah Baray, CEO of Pre-K 4 SA

• Episode #51 Interview with Amanda Rishworth MP, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development

• Episode #63 Interview with Megan Mitchell, National Children’s Commissioner

• Episode #69 Early Childhood: Realising the Potential (Part 1)

• Episode #70 Early Childhood: Realising the Potential (Part 2)

• Bonus Episode #6: Interview with Kim King, Yenu Allowah Aboriginal Child and Family Centre

• Episode #76 Being a Baby, Belonging and Becoming (with Mia Mia Child and Family Centre)

• Episode #87 Saving Alstonville Community Preschool (with Katherine Buckley)

• Episode #94 Imagination, play and the Conceptual Playworld (with Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer)

• Episode #98 Ethically operating a for-profit ECEC service (with Tamika Hicks)

SPECIAL EPISODES

• Episode #16 2016 Year In Review / Q&A

• Episode #53 2017 Year in Review / Q&A

• Episode #73 The biggest social justice issue facing early childhood education (LIVE from the SJIEC Conference)

• Episode #78 Being an Agent of Change (from the Realising the Potential Conference)

• Episode #79 Encouraging and supporting positive parenting (from the Realising the Potential Conference)

• Episode #80 How do I lead and improve excellence in early learning? (from the Realising the Potential Conference)

• Episode #89 2018 Year in Review / Q&A

• Episode #100 What has the 2019 election told us about early education advocacy? (LIVE from the ELAA Conference)

• Episode #107 Advocacy is everybody's job (LIVE from the SJIEC Conference)

• Episode #116: 2019 Year in Review / Q&A