Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Scullion, the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is it true that the Treasury’s analysis of child care used an average weekly cost of just $83.20 as the basis of its claim that ‘child care has remained affordable’? Is it not the case that some families living in our larger cities in fact pay over $100 a day—that is, six times the estimate used by Treasury—to get child care for their kids? Can the minister now explain the basis of the estimate used by Treasury?