House debates Personal Explanations

Tuesday, 19 November 2013 House of Representatives

Kate Ellis

Kate Ellis Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education

4:16 pm

I do. Sadly there are two different instances. Yesterday the assistant minister and today several backbenchers made the mistake of using the assistant minister's statistics and stated that I was the minister who presided over a 44 per cent increase in the cost of child care during my time in government. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics data, the childcare CPI did indeed rise by 44 per cent, but that was under the last coalition government and I most certainly was not the minister.

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