Fraser Anning (Queensland, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Minister, on 12 June, while attending a meeting of the red tape committee in Brisbane, I was present when the committee received submissions about child care in Australia. At this meeting I asked the representative of the Department of Education and Training about two women who are at the centre of an alleged $5.7 million family day care fraud, but I failed to obtain an informative response. Since the department appears unable to provide any clear information on this issue, can the minister detail what the process was that allowed a departmental official to sign off on 11 cheques totalling $5.7 million for some 1,600 children who were enrolled on the same day by the same person?