Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

These reforms will have real, practical, tangible benefits for the hardest-working, lowest-income Australian families. Take a single parent working for about $50,000 per annum. That single parent with two children under six in long day care for three days a week will be around $3,300 a year better off. That is $3,300 that will help that parent to work the hours that suit them and to be able to meet the costs of child care to participate in the workforce. Equally, a family in which both parents work and earn around $80,000 with two children in long day care will be around $3,400 better off as a result of the reforms the Turnbull government is implementing. These are real benefits that will make a real difference to making it easier for hardworking Australian households.