Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I reiterate the point I made just a moment ago. Whilst we certainly have the details of the cost impacts for the national quality framework, which is what this measure pertains to, and savings in order to assist in the delivery of the national quality framework, this measure does not relate to the carbon tax. Certainly some of your colleagues have sought to utilise that issue to highlight their concerns about cost-of-living pressures, but this particular measure bears no relationship to the carbon tax.