Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I was saying, Mr President, for families with children in full-time care, that rise works out to be more than $130 a week and $6,300 a year in additional fees. It is a damning indictment on those opposite and demonstrates their complete misunderstanding of the childcare sector. When they took office in September 2007, the average long day care fee was $5 an hour; by the time they left in September 2013, it was $7.65. Outside-school-hours care fees rose by 52 per cent during the same period. Family day care fees were up by 50 per cent and occasional care fees by 50 per cent. It is a shameful legacy. They promised 260 new childcare centres; they built 38 and then said in 2010, 'Oh, we won't build the extra 222.' You should be embarrassed. You should be ashamed of that broken promise—222 childcare centres that you just did not bother to build. (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—