Chae van Dorssen leads DLP bid on $35k homemaker pay
A DLP candidate proposes a $35,000 homemaker allowance for the Victorian election. The party would pay for it by cutting the childcare subsidy.
Chae van Dorssen is the lead Democratic Labour Party candidate for the upper house seat of Northern Victoria. The election is on November 28.
Van Dorssen supports a $35,000 yearly homemaker allowance. Parents who stay home to raise children would get it.
The party would pay for this by cutting the current $30,000 annual childcare subsidy. Van Dorssen is a mother of four who moved to regional Victoria last year.
She worked as a winery manager and ran her own cleaning business. The DLP says this gives families choice: support for raising children at home instead of commercial childcare.
- $35,000 yearly
- Proposed homemaker allowance
- $30,000 annually
- Childcare subsidy to cut
- November 28
- Election date
- four (two boys, two girls)
- Van Dorssen's children
Why it mattersOffers families a different way to fund child-rearing. Families can get support to stay home instead of using commercial childcare.
AustraliaAffects Victorian families in the upcoming state election; this policy would redirect existing childcare funding.
