Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Early Childhood and Youth, Senator Kim Carr. With the government's announcement today of $300 million capped over two years for child care wages to be lifted, a stark contrast to the $1.4 billion the childcare sector has been calling for—a quick back-of-the-envelope sum less than one-tenth—how many of the 60,000 childcare workers in fact will get any of this wage rise, especially considering that the majority, 70 per cent of them, are not on enterprise bargaining agreements?