Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

a will receive an additional $1,404 as a tax cut. How much do you think an early childhood teacher got under the previous plan? Nothing—not a dollar, not a cent. That has gone from zero to over $1,000 of tax cuts for early childhood educators and early childhood teachers under Labor's plan.

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet some of those hardworking early childhood educators: Caro, who had been in the industry for 45 years, and Tennille, who was only just starting out in her career. Those two early childhood educators—one who had spent decades devoting her life to early childhood education, and one who had chosen to start her career as an early childhood educator—told me what these tax cuts mean for them. They mean food on the table, petrol in their car and paying their car insurance. I don't want to take that away from them, and I challenge those opposite (Time expired)

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