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Subscriber only Exclusive: Child s play based on butterflies and building blocks will be a key part of formal early learning under the first curriculum changes to daycare in a decade. The nation s education ministers will launch a review of Australia s early learning framework this year (2021), to change the way babies, toddlers and preschoolers are taught in childcare centres. The review will use the latest research on children s brain development. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Samantha Page called for play-based learning to sparks kids curiosity. Children should be learning as they play, she told News Corp Australia yesterday.