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

You can guarantee essential services, like better childcare subsidies, in the future by having a stronger economy—as the coalition does and as the Turnbull government has done—and by ensuring that you're careful with every taxpayer dollar. That is the approach of the Liberal and National parties. Our approach is to respect every taxpayer dollar and to ensure that we have a stronger economy. That is allowing us to deliver reforms that are going to help around one million Australian families to be better off. Because we've managed to improve the budget position through a stronger economy, we are able to invest an extra $2.5 billion in the new childcare system to help working families. We're able to ensure that 85 per cent of families will no longer have to worry about hitting a cap in relation to the childcare rebate. That is because the cap has been abolished for those families, ensuring that they can choose to work the hours and days that best suit them. We expect that we will see 230,000 choose to increase their workforce participation. (Time expired)