More than 50 toddlers and babies will lose their community kindergarten, as the Albanese government claims Swinburne University is chasing a $14 million real estate payday.

The local federal MP and Stonnington Council say talks to save the much-loved Windsor Community Children’s Centre (WCCC) have collapsed after the uni knocked back an $8 million joint offer to buy the site and keep the kinder operating from its home of nearly three decades.

But Swinburne reacted indignantly on Friday to the public attack by the government and council, with the university saying that no $8 million offer had ever been made and that the tertiary institution had worked hard to find a fair solution to the kinder’s future.

The uni also rejects the notion that it is “evicting” the centre, after giving notice

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