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

I am happy indeed to talk about which ones, because one good example of an Australian family like the many low- and middle-income working families who will most benefit from this policy is the example of Sarah and Jasvinder. Sarah and Jasvinder were people who appeared in the Labor Party's policy document that they released on child care during the election campaign—a family working full-time with an income of $100,000 per year, they have two children in care five days a week and pay daily fees of $95 per child.

Labor boasted that Sarah and Jasvinder would be $3,658 better off per year under their policy. But they did not bother to do the sums about our policy. And, under our policy, they will be much better off, to the tune of $6,846—essentially, double the benefit under the coalition's policy than under Labor's policy for the very example that the Labor Party sought to highlight. Sarah and Jasvinder are examples of around one million Australian families who will be better off as a result of our— (Time expired)