Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'll invite the Minister for Education to add to this answer. But, on this matter—speaking as the former Minister for Social Services, who had responsibility for child care at the time—it was actually our government that introduced the reform package to child care, which those opposite, when they were in government and when they were in opposition, failed to deliver. That is ensuring that people, particularly on low and middle incomes, are getting access to up to 85 per cent rebates under our government. We got rid of the caps that were applied to those seeking childcare rebates that had previously seen them run out of childcare support by about February and March of every year. So we took action to address the manifold failures that were in the childcare system that turned it into a money pit from what was designed under those opposite when they were in government. I invite the Minister for Education to add to this answer.

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