Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

But it particularly does it for families who are having a go—families who know they need to be in work and they have to stay in work to ensure that they can pay the bills and support their families in the way they want to. That is why we have invested $3.5 billion—that is what we are seeking to do—to make child care simpler, to make it more affordable, to make it more accessible and to make it more flexible. That is what we are doing for families who know they need to be in work to pay those bills and give their families the choices they want for them.

We are especially doing that for families on low to middle incomes. That is where this money is going—to low- to middle-income earners. It is especially going to families that are at disadvantage and are vulnerable, particularly those families who have children with disabilities and particularly families in rural and remote areas who cannot access the services that they need to access—families who are dairy farmers, and others who need to have access to that level of services that the system currently does not provide.

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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