So much has changed since we saw those happy smiling faces at that press conference. On to the Early Childhood Council conference on Saturday just gone, where the Minister was skewered, to put it mildly. Where angry and frustrated early childhood centres—while they absolutely want and support pay parity and want to pay their very much valued teachers a lot more—were angry, upset, and frustrated with the Minister for the way in which he has gone about his pay parity promise. There were many reasons that were talked about.