Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I have been asked about the reinvestment of our savings from the family tax benefits system into childcare. The lion's share of the savings from the family tax benefit savings are being reinvested into childcare. It is generational reform.

But what is very interesting about the structural changes that allow you to save money in the family assistance system and move it into proper investment in childcare is that over six years members opposite took $23 billion out of the family assistance system. In fact, the list is so long it is on a spreadsheet: changes to rules for receiving family and parental payments overseas; indexation pauses on upper limits of family payments—

Mr Bowen interjecting—

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