Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

While we have made progress, while we are heading in the right direction, we are the first to acknowledge that there is still much more work to be done. When we come back after the winter recess, we look forward to working with the Senate to legislate our jobs for families package—our package providing better access to simpler, more affordable, more flexible childcare arrangements to help families get into work, be in work and stay in work. We look forward to Labor's support of our proposal to help families access better child care and, also, to Labor helping us to legislate the savings required to pay for it.

There are still some outstanding matters from Labor's last budget on which we would like to think that Labor, on reflection, will support the government, because we are still doing the hard yards in implementing some of the measures out of Labor's last budget.