Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Tyrrell. As I indicated, the government's focus to date has been on long daycare centres, on outside of school hours care centres. That has been our focus up until now. I did hear Senator McKenzie—I think it was—say that it was a good question that you asked, which is interesting coming from a member of the opposition, because they did nothing about early childhood wages for the 10 years they were in government. They did nothing about the spiralling cost of child care for Australian families while they were in government. As usual, with Senator McKenzie, they are very wise when in opposition; they are just not very good when in government.