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

It also provides flexible support for nurses, for police officers, for firies, for those who are working shift work who cannot get access to child care now because their work hours do not give them that access. Under our program, that will be provided—something that was missing for years and years. Those opposite drove up the cost of child care year in year out. What this government is doing with this package of measures is giving those families choice. And we are going to support early childhood education by continuing universal access for preschool education—funding that those opposite left short.

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