Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

in child care that Australia has ever had and, although more people are accessing it all the time, the number of people that are still looking for child care has declined.

That does not mean that there cannot be improvements, and the uncapping of outside school hours places and the uncapping of family day care will improve the child-care system in Australia. The introduction of the child-care rebate, which will give you a 30 per cent rebate of your out-of-pocket costs, will also improve the situation for mothers. This is a government which is determined to improve child care for working mothers in Australia. What the ABS publication shows is that, over the last 10 years, we have made improvements, we are making progress and our budget announcements will take that further.

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