Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Kemp, representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. I refer to the budget announcement that the government will lift the cap on family day care and after school care places. Isn’t it the case that centre based long day care has been uncapped for years and yet shortages and gluts exist across the country? Doesn’t the government realise there are almost 100,000 after school and family day care places already unused in the system mainly because of the shortage of child-care workers? How will lifting the cap help?