Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We think that the best way to consider the childcare system is to give it to the Productivity Commission, which has done such good work when it comes to disabilities, when it comes to aged care and when it comes to paid parental leave. This is the right body to advise us as to how we can best look at our childcare system to try to ensure that it best reflects the 24/7 nature of the modern workplace and the diversity of the modern Australian family.

So that is what we propose to do. I can indicate to the House that we will do a much better job when it comes to child care than the former government did, which promised to end the double drop-off and which promised 260 childcare centres, and broke that promise after just 38 of them had been delivered. But what we will not be doing is breaking our pre-election commitments, and we have no intention to means test.

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