Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. On 2 February this year, the Age reported, with the headline 'High childcare costs push 90,000 parents out of the workforce', the story of my constituent, Emily Hovette, who is 33 years old, who works full-time and her two-year-old daughter, Margot, is in child care five days a week and her out-of-pocket expenses are $350. She and her husband, who also works full-time, plan to have a second child. How are they going to pay for it is what Emily asks. How are they going to pay $700 a week? She said it's 'a hell of a lot of money and it's going to be really tough, but we are prepared to do it because there are no other options'.

She said:

I just think it's a bit of a broken system personally. I'm trying to work to set up a future for my family and also show my daughter that women can be successful in the workplace.

Under a federal Labor government, she would save over $6,000 a year, assuming she gets a 50 per cent subsidy, and that's how women will be successful in a workplace under a federal Labor government.

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