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

prevent payment of family tax benefit Part A instalments for customers who provide inaccurate estimates; pause indexation of family tax benefit supplements; extend pause FTB B; remove expansion of link to FTB A; cease fortnightly payments for recipients who do not lodge tax returns. What they moved out of the family assistance system was $23 billion worth of savings that they took out of the family tax benefit system. And how much of that did they reinvest into childcare over six years? Absolutely none.

What we are presenting the parliament and the Australian people with is a system that invests a massive amount of money found in savings in the family tax benefit system. That allows 230,000 Australians who have said that the reason they cannot engage, or engage more, with the childcare system is because of a failure to reform that system to be helped by this major reinvestment. It is a reinvestment that we are making and that you were never able to make. (Time expired)

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