Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a supplementary question. Given the findings by Access Economics that childcare costs for parents under the National Quality Framework may increase by up to $12 a day per child, and given that for a family with two children this increase of $120 per week is not something that the average Australian family can afford, what plans does the government have in place to compensate families for the additional costs of child care to ensure they are not forced out of the workforce and their children out of an early learning opportunity?