Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Sydney, who is bleating away over there today, was asked on ABC radio in Brisbane about building a child-care centre in a primary school and acknowledged that there is not a lot of space in these schools. She was asked: ‘How are you going to deal with it?’ She said they will do that in areas that have fewer kids attending schools. She said they will go to an area where the number of children is starting to decline because the area is ageing—where there are no babies—and put a child-care centre there. What a great idea! That is what you get when you make policy on the run, when you are under pressure as the member for Brand has been.

With regard to the 30 per cent rebate—which they are all bleating about over there—you would think it would not be Labor Party policy, but it turns out, for once, that they are now singing from the same hymn sheet. The member for Sydney has said, ‘We don’t want to abolish it.’ That is because the parents need the money now. The opposition is agreeing, at last, with the 30 per cent rebate.

There has been some other comment on the Labor Party policy. Child Care New South Wales put out a press release—

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