‘All hell let loose’: Abigail Boyd fought to release documents that revealed gross childcare failings. Then she had to read them

Abigail Boyd, who chairs the NSW parliament’s education committee, is calling for a radical rethink of childcare. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Every Wednesday about 5,000 pages of documents are sent to the clerk’s office in New South Wales Parliament House and members of Abigail Boyd’s staff scan each one.

The documents are being released in tranches by various state government bodies after a legal fight by Boyd, a Greens upper house member and the chair of the NSW education committee.