Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Today, the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care released a report commissioned from Deloitte. Unfortunately, this report looks at only one element of the comprehensive childcare package the government has release and disregards key areas. In fact, the report itself acknowledges:

… it does not present a comprehensive picture of the impact of the reforms once all resulting changes have been taken into account.

That is because the report only considers the potential impact from the childcare subsidy and ignores the significant support available through the $858 million Child Care Safety Net, including the support available via the $178 million Additional Child Care Subsidy, the 120 per cent subsidy available for children at risk or parents experiencing particular hardship—

Senator O'Neill interjecting—

And ignores, as the senator opposite likes to ignore, the $271 million Community Child Care Fund, which will assist services, including those Indigenous services, to be able to provide quality child care to those communities. We are committed to working with these services to make sure the transition is successful. (Time expired)