Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

We will have a final report in October. Things are moving quickly and I want to reassure the three-quarters of a million families who took their children back to child care last week—many of whom are struggling with rising costs and are unable to take up the careers they would like to have to meet their needs because they cannot find affordable child care near them—that we have already acted to cut red tape in concert with state and territory ministers. I look forward to the outcome of our Productivity Commission review. I thank the shadow minister for making a submission to the review and helpfully telling us all the problems in the childcare landscape at the moment—she is not in the House today. Isn't that an admission of all the things she failed to fix when she was childcare minister in the Labor government?

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