The opposition has sought to highlight the losers from the changes starting in July, using a new breakdown of which electorates contain the 279,000 families that will be worse off.

Early childhood spokeswoman Amanda Rishworth says data the opposition obtained under freedom of information show Labor-held electorates of Lalor, Rankin and Blaxland are the top three where families will lose out.

“The government for months has been trying to convince Australians that families will only be better off under their childcare changes,” she told reporters on Sunday.

“What the figures reveal is that families right across Australia will be affected and indeed the majority of families who will be affected are in the two lowest income brackets.”

However, the figures show that while the electorates Ms Rishworth highlighted are the biggest losers in terms of the number of families, it is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s own seat of Wentworth where the highest proportion of subsidies will be lost.

Nearly half the families who now get childcare subsidies in the wealthy Sydney suburbs he represents will lose out from July.

More than two in five families in other blue-ribbon Liberal seats of Goldstein, Curtin, Warringah, North Sydney and Higgins will lose payments.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham says overall more than a million families will get higher subsidies for their children’s care under the new system.

“This is about helping those families who are working the longest hours and earning the least amount of money,” he told reporters.

Under the changes, which passed parliament last March, existing childcare subsidies will be rolled into a single payment.

Both parents must be working, looking for work, studying or volunteering for at least eight hours a fortnight to be eligible and families with a combined income of more than $350,000 won’t get any subsidy.

“Is the Labor Party really saying they want more taxpayer dollars to support child care for people who are sitting at home?” the minister said.

“Because, frankly, that would be a waste of taxpayer dollars.”

Parents can use an estimator on the federal education department’s website to calculate how much subsidy they will be eligible for under the new system.

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Riley Schmidt, from NSW’s Southern Highlands, was trying on a Harry Potter costume last Sunday when he was bitten on the finger by a creature hiding in the outfit.

“It hurt and it felt very sharp,” he said, according to Fairfax Media.

When he showed his mother and father Kayla and Stephen he didn’t seem too upset, but they wrapped his finger in a compression bandage and called an ambulance to their home, north of Mittagong.

Kayla, who held Riley’s bandage on while Stephen caught the spider, had done first-aid training on snake and spider bites — not thinking she would need it.

When the boy arrived at Bowral and District Hospital, doctors administered anti-venom before transferring him to Randwick Children’s Hospital.

Riley’s hand had started swelling, but medics praised his parents for taking rapid and effective action, which prevented the situation from getting worse.

“It started with his fingers and then the rest of his hand started to swell,” said Kayla. “The anti-venom worked really quickly and we started to see him improve 10 or so minutes after he had it.”

There is a shortage of anti-venom this summer, so Stephen took the spider to Taronga Zoo after he caught it.

“Part of the reason we brought the spider in was because we had heard there was a shortage of anti-venom,” he said. “It was jumping around in the container and you could hear its fangs hitting the plastic.”

Funnel-web spiders are milked for venom, which is taken to labs to be made into anti-venom. They are more likely to attack in summer, as they like hot, moist weather.

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The capture of one of the tiny killers off the west coast of Fraser Island last weekend has sparked renewed fears the creature is moving south as sea temperatures rise.

Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) found the highly venomous jellyfish in a stinger drag and jellyfish toxicologist Professor Jamie Seymour confirmed it was an Irukandji.

The catch came after three women and a 12-year-old girl were hospitalised after being stung in the Fraser Island waters by Irukandji jellyfish.

Surf Life Saving Queensland confirmed an Irukandji was found on Fraser Island in a stinger drag.Source:Supplied

James Cook University professor Jamie Seymour after an Irukandji sting, predicts the jellyfish will reach the Gold Coast. Picture: natureofscience.com.auSource:Supplied

The tiny Irukandji jellyfish in a sample bottle after capture. Picture: Marc McCormackSource:News Corp Australia

Irukandji fishing

When it reached those waters, he predicted it would force beach closures and cause a “collapse” in tourism, Nine News reported.

Professor Seymour, who has himself been stung more than 10 times by Irukandji, described the pain as a “10 out of 10” which lasts for between six and 12 hours.

“There’s usually severe vomiting, nausea, stomach cramps and about 10-15 per cent of patients end up with cardiac problems,” he said.

“Linked with that is this feeling of impending doom where everything is going to go wrong and there’s nothing you can do to fix it.”

Renowned Australian jellyfish expert and CSIRO scientist Dr Lisa Gershwin is leading a field trip to study Irukandji jellyfish. Picture: Stewart MacleanSource:News Corp Australia

Five beaches north of Cairns were closed. Picture: Brendan RadkeSource:News Corp Australia

Preserved Irukandji sample from last year. Picture: Josh WoningSource:News Corp Australia

Several victims have died from Irukandji stings which caused heart failure.

SLSQ has warned swimmers to “stay out of the water entirely” on the western side of Fraser Island.

A spate of Irukandji stings in the 2016 to early 2017 Christmas break caused alarm.

SLSQ advised that if a person was stung, triple-0 should be called immediately and the sting area should be doused with vinegar as soon as possible.

Visitors to Fraser Island should take a bottle of vinegar with them.

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As Mr Ogier continued driving, the red-bellied black snake started tapping on his window.

“It’d come out from under the engine bay under the bonnet. It was probably a bit warm there,” Mr Ogier told ABC News.

“It was sort of tapping on the window a couple of times, because it obviously wanted to get in.”

The snake wrapped itself around the mirror. Picture: Nolans Auto PartsSource:Facebook

It was tapping on the window trying to get in. Picture: Nolans Auto PartsSource:Facebook

Mr Ogier put in a quick call to his co-worker Kai Pearse who put his amateur snake wrangling skills, and the broom in his car, to good use.

“I just had a broom in the back of the ute and … basically just got him off the car nice and safely, and just ushered him into the bushland off on the side of the road,” Mr Pearse told the publication.

It isn’t uncommon for snakes to curl up in car engines, especially to keep themselves warm overnight, which the pair speculate their red-bellied black snake was doing.

“Last night it got a bit cold down here on the South Coast, so I think he’s got up into the engine bay of the vehicle, and he sat up on the engine to keep himself warm,” Mr Pearse said.

But, when the engine starts running, things get a little too hot — and the snake starts looking for somewhere else.

Despite the pair estimating the snake was at least 2.5m long, Mr Ogier said he’d take his slippery hitchhiker over a spider any day.

“Not as frightening as getting a spider on the inside — spiders are one thing I don’t like, but I don’t like snakes either,” he said.

The snake was looking for a way in the car. Picture: Nolans Auto PartsSource:Facebook

The post has since gone viral on Facebook with plenty of commenters saying their reaction would’ve been a little less relaxed.

“Burn the car, it’s not worth it,” one wrote.

Another person said seeing something like that is “when you’re glad you have the windows up!”

“Holy hell red-belly, I would just run off the road or try to speed off in hope it falls off and doesn’t go up under the car — my heart would stop!” another commenter wrote.

Mr Ogier’s hitchhiking snake comes two weeks after another red-bellied black snake decided he’d make his temporary home in a car engine.

Sydney man Michael Garbutt was out for an afternoon walk just after Christmas when he noticed someone had left a note on his windscreen.

“This afternoon a red belly slithered up into your front left tyre. Please be careful,” a good Samaritan had written to him.

The note the good Samaritan left him.Source:Supplied

Carefully lifting the bonnet, Mr Garbutt spotted, as the note had warned, a red-bellied black snake curled in the engine.

The high school teacher carefully closed the bonnet, with his little friend still inside, and called Andrew Melrose from Shire Snake Catchers.

Mr Melrose rushed to the scene but realised the rescue wasn’t going to be an easy one.

“It took about an hour for the snake catcher to coax it out. The snake was trying to bite the snake hook. The guy ended up catching it with his hand and just chucked it in a bag,” Mr Garbutt told the Sydney Morning Herald.

The snake curled up in Michael Garbutt’s engine.Source:Facebook

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said dodgy operators now had nowhere to hide.

“This register should serve as a warning to providers that if you’re non-compliant and do the wrong thing you will be hung out to dry,” Senator Birmingham said.

In 2016-17, the Education Department issued 141 sanctions and immediate cancellations of taxpayer subsidies.

Almost 40 others were caught out for wrongdoing in the first quarter of the 2017-18 financial year. The majority of cases involved family day care services, with fraud being the most common breach.

“We don’t want dodgy individuals looking after Australian children,” he said.

The government carried out 3800 compliance checks in 2016-17.

Parents can view the Child Care Enforcement Action Register at www.education.gov.au/child-care-enforcement-action-register.

Labor has welcomed the register but said it did nothing to help the 279,000 Australian families who will be worse off under the Liberals’ new childcare changes.

The Turnbull Government’s new child care package is due to kick off on 2 July and will also provide additional compliance powers to crack down on rorters.

The new package will allow a family earning less than $65,000 a year to have 85 per cent of their child care bills paid for by taxpayers.

But it has been criticised for hitting lower income families as parents will have to work, study or volunteer for at least eight hours a fortnight to get the maximum benefit.

It’s been estimated that those earning less than $65,710 a year will get reduced subsidies.

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The government has defended the package and Mr Birmingham said it would provide an extra $2.5 billion investment and nearly one million families were set to benefit.

“A working family on $50,000 a year with two children in care three days a week at $100 a day will be around $3380 better off each year,” Mr Birmingham said.

“That same family earning $150,000 a year would be around $1040 better off a year, and if they were earning $94,000 with the children in care two days a week, they’d be around $1560 better off a year.

“We know that affordable childcare is essential for some families to work the hours they want and the days that suit them, which is why we’re targeting support to low and middle income, hardworking families.”

Between the March 2016 and 2017 quarters, Mr Birmingham said there had been a 3.1 per cent increase in the numbers of children attending approved early education and care services.

He said the Turnbull Government’s actions to date had helped slow fee growth to 3.9 per cent, including 4 per cent for long day care, the second-lowest increases in the last decade.

“After a decade of annual average fee increases of 6.7 per cent and 14.6 per cent spikes under Labor, we know how tough some families are finding the cost of early education and care,” he said.

“I encourage families to visit our savings estimator at www.education.gov.au/childcare so they can see exactly what our changes mean for them and their budgets.”

First Aid Course Training for all staff should also be something that you look for when choosing a centre for your child.

Parents will be able to check up on child care centres on a government register. Picture: iStockSource:Supplied

Margi Keys said there was something distressing about the baby’s crying that prompted her to investigate, the New Zealand Herald reports.

To her horror she found the crying baby red and sweating in a car she described as a furnace.

“There were heaps of people around but no one took any notice. I started calling out asking whose baby it was and eventually a man in his 20s waved at me but didn’t come over to the car,” she said.

The incident occurred around midday when the outside temperature peaked at 25C and there was no wind.

Ms Keys said the baby looked extremely uncomfortable so she slid open the back door unclipped the seatbelt from his car seat and gently pulled him out.

“As soon as he was out of the car and in my arms, he stopped crying.”

Police say that young children must never be left alone in a house or vehicle and they require constant supervision.

The parent of the child didn’t appear to realise how dangerous leaving a child in a car was, according to Ms Keys. Picture: iStockSource:Supplied

It is illegal to leave a child under the age of 14 without reasonable provision for their care.

Ms Keys said she couldn’t believe with all the publicity about the danger of leaving a child in a hot car that it still happens.

“Heatstroke can happen in two minutes. Brain damage can occur. Death is then not far away.”

In 2015 a 16-month-old baby died after being left in a car outside of the mothers Whanganui workplace.

Ms Keys said she approached the man and told him that the baby was very hot and distressed and about the dangers of leaving a baby in a hot car.

“He protested that he’d ‘only been gone two minutes’ and that ‘he was asleep’ when he parked the car.”

She said the man didn’t seem that concerned and told her that the baby usually cries and it was normal.

“I said to him that most babies need to be held a lot, they need to feel secure, and being held and soothed helps them to have that sense of security.”

But Ms Keys said even though the man agreed not to do it again, she was unsure he understood how dangerous it was.

“If you are at the beach and you see a child distressed in the water you go to save them, the same principle should apply to a baby left in a car.”

This article was originally published by the New Zealand Herald and appears here with permission.

The footage, filmed by Matt Robertson and posted on social media, showed the shark circling the boat where the father and son were fishing, about 9am on Sunday.

Mr Robertson claimed the great white was six metres long and “bigger than the boat we’re on”. To put that in context, the shark in Jaws the movie was meant to be 23 feet, or about seven metres big.

“There’s a f***ing great white, look! Oh my God. Holy s**t. That is a big boy!” Mr Robertson exclaims.

“That is the f***ing size of the boat, Dad. That is a big dog,” he adds.

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Screen shot of the shark filmed off Semaphore and posted on Facebook by Matt Robertson.Source:Supplied

The shark was as big as the boat. Picture: Matt Robertson.Source:The Advertiser

His father appears calmer, telling him: “Don’t swear. Don’t lean over.”

Then the shark disappears from view.

“Where’d he go? asks Mr Robertson. There he is. Oh he’s right under us, ay?

The beast then grabs onto the nets.

“So glad I didn’t get in the water before,” he adds.

It’s one of several close encounters with sharks in SA waters recently.

Last week a five-metre great white was filmed circling a fishing boat at Port Victoria off Yorke Peninsula.

The huge great white — estimated to be five metres in length — was caught on video by a nervous but amazed family of seven at Port Victoria after it began circling their fishing boat.

The enormous creature made itself known to the Brown family about 3pm as they fished for whiting off the west coast of Yorke Peninsula.

Mother Jodie Brown, visiting her parents with her own children for the Christmas holidays, said they had been out on the water for a couple of hours before the shark just appeared.

“It just swam up to the boat from behind and it was just circling us for about 20 minutes, it would just go round and come back again,” she said.

Giant great white shark circles boat off Yorke Peninsula

Shark investigates boat off Eyre Peninsula

Close encounter with massive great white shark

Shark bites boat off West Beach, Adelaide