Senate debates

Monday, 9 September 2024

Questions without Notice

Child Care

2:47 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike the Greens, the Labor Party is actually delivering the early childhood education care and services that so many families in regional and rural Australia are seeking. We're not just interested in coming in here and making complaints, grandstanding or jumping up on stage with the CFMEU, as we know the Greens like to do. What we're actually doing is delivering the services that Australian families need. We acknowledge that there's a long way to go because we did inherit a system that was fundamentally broken by the coalition, despite their claims to be the party representing rural and regional Australia. That's why we are now, through the Community Child Care Fund, investing more in services, delivering the pay rise that workers in the sector need, reducing the fees to be charged—

Oh, it's the head of the Setka faction of the Greens over there, Senator Shoebridge, chipping in. We are doing what the Greens can only complain and grandstand about. We're actually getting it done. We're interested in results. (Time expired)

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