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

To the members of the government sitting over there, to the child who's yelling at me, the member for Moncrieff and the member for Higgins are talking about how much better off people will be under this policy and no-one is talking about the fact it doesn't start for 12 months and, even then, 750,000 families will miss out. So next time you are talking about your policies, maybe talk about the actual details so people know that they will not be better off tomorrow or next week or next month; they will be better off possibly in 12 months, if you are re-elected. Some 750,000 people are left out. The way that people will be better off under a reformed childcare system is if they vote for a Labor government. You know, it was 2 February of this year that the Age had an article entitled: 'High childcare costs push 90,000 parents out of the workforce'. Members of the government keep talking about how amazing they are.

Government members interjecting—

Perhaps if you stop yelling at me and listen to this, you will hear I'm talking about a real person in my electorate.

Honourable members interjecting—

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