In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’ strike. The campaign represents yet another assault on childcare affordability from the union movement, whose agenda has been driving up prices for years.

‘If you have a child in early learning, please keep them home on 27 March,’ bleated the website of United Voice, the childcare sector union, ‘and register your support to be a part of securing the best outcomes for every child and their educator’.