Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian government is investing record levels of funding in child care of $8.6 billion this year, increasing to around $10 billion a year in the coming years, including a $1.2 billion safety net program supporting disadvantaged and disabled children. The number of Indigenous non-English speaking and low-income families accessing the additional childcare subsidy all continue to increase, with non-English speaking and low-income families having higher proportions in child care than the community average. The OECD now estimates expenditure on all children aged three to five in an educational setting, and, using this measure, Australia's expenditure was the same as the OECD average.