Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to make sure that they can bring that baby up in a loving and nurturing environment. But those women in Fitzroy Crossing, those women in Roebourne, those women in Halls Creek, those women in Kununurra that are utilising those family and child services—well apparently their need is not as great because there is no longer any national partnership money for them. And if the state government does not cough up and fill the gap, those centres will close.

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