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

It made no recurrent funding available and the capital funding came out, as I understand it, on 1 July this year. So members opposite, when they were in government, made capital funding available. The capital funding that they made available ceased, as I understand it, on 1 July and they never made recurrent funding available because, quite properly, they thought recurrent funding for preschools should be provided by state and territory governments. I know they have got—

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