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

I am not aware of alternative policies, although there was a glimmer on the weekend that Mr Shorten had perhaps adopted our policy. On the weekend Mr Shorten said:

I make this invitation very clearly to Mr Turnbull. We will vote to improve the deal for child care, absolutely …

I hope that we see at long last support from the Labor Party for our reforms and support to ensure that we can get this legislation through the parliament—not with new conditions or new arrangements—so we can deliver that assistance to around one million Australian families. Around one million Australian families deserve it and need it. They are suffering under a broken child-care model. When Labor were in government they only ever tinkered with that child-care model. At the last election Labor promised to continue with it, but the Turnbull government is determined to completely reform and overhaul it.