Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue) Share this | Hansard source

I will move on now to another issue. The focus of public debate in recent times has been on child care—or, more to the point, the unavailability of child care—and, of course, the affordability of child care. I ask the parliamentary secretary what work the government have done on the various options for delivering greater child-care services in this country. Have they, for example, done any work on costing extending the FBT arrangements to small businesses or organisations which do not provide child care in-house? Have the government done any costing on the possibility of allowing taxpayers to claim child care as a tax deductible expense?

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