Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

The government, I repeat, has taken decisive action to ensure that working parents have access to child care. We are working closely with the ABC Learning receivers to determine the longer-term future of the 386 centres, and more information will be provided to parents in the near future. We are anticipating that that close working relationship with the receiver will mean that the determinations on those 386 centres—well, of course, it is under review, and we expect the decisions on those matters to be made shortly.