Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Wright for his question—a real-world person delivering real-world results for the people of South-East Queensland. Our election commitment was to restore affordability, flexibility and accessibility in the childcare and early-learning sector in Australia, and we are well on the way to doing just that. We have had to work our way through a litany of Labor failures, and I should probably highlight just some of them. Labor's biggest failure was that childcare fees rose 53 per cent in six years under Labor. Our response: a once-in-a-generation Productivity Commission inquiry, the first review of the system since the 1980s—

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