Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Disability Reform) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Capricornia for her question because, from today, 1.3 million Australian families will get some extra help with the costs of sending their children to school, extra help that families need when they have to pay out for those new uniforms, shoes, schoolbooks, computers, school excursions—all of us know the list goes on and on. And, from next year, families will get the help when they need it: at the start of term 1 and the start of term 3.

This is going to include families like the family we visited this morning. The Acting Prime Minister and the member for Canberra and I went to Hughes Primary School and met with a family—Elizabeth and Anthony and their children Liam and Lauren. This family will receive $818 straight into their bank account this fortnight to help them with the costs of their children's education. We, of course, are sure—

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