Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

Those on the other side simply confuse the issues. This government is providing sensible policies that actually assist parents in finding child care. That is an excellent hotline and it is much simpler than this notional new hub those opposite will create. The other part of their policy is: ‘We’re going to build 200 new childcare centres.’ They cannot tell us where—that is a secret at the moment, of course. The indication was that it would perhaps be in school grounds. If you ask the schools, they cannot find the room for them and they do not know where they are going to go. Again, those on the other side come from a government with a record of having half the number of childcare places we have made available and providing half the money that we are providing.