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

I was asked about child care. Under our policy, 84 per cent of families are not impacted by the caps in our policy, and the threshold kicks in at about $350,000 a year for a family. They're the caps that kicked in for our policy. Our policy is means tested. That is our policy that we put in place, and it saw childcare costs come down since then. But I'm asked why we have made the investments that we have. The Leader of the Opposition often makes this point. I will tell you why we have invested at this time: because there is a COVID-19 pandemic that has stripped jobs and livelihoods—and, in many cases, lives—away from Australians. This might be a mystery to the Leader of the Opposition. I've heard how he talks about the recession. If you don't understand how the country got into recession, then you don't have a clue about how to get out of it. That is the failing of this Leader of the Opposition. This Leader of the Opposition walks around this country as if there has never been a pandemic.

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