Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to the childcare sector, which is clearly causing these levels of disorderly interjections, we have come up with a better, fairer, more equitable way of providing transitional support in the context of a massive return of children into child care, in the context of the business model of childcare services, in the context of our capacity to provide childcare subsidies, in the context of higher attendance rates and in the context of higher-income parents being able to make contributions to the cost of caring for children and, indeed, a transitional payment of $708 million across the sector, which comes with an employment guarantee across the childcare services. When it comes to its economic circumstances, Australia is in a challenging situation, but it is so much better than just about anywhere else in the world.