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

It is worth remembering that those opposite decided to vote against the additional support for Australian families. It is remarkable to think that was the case, that we could come along with reforms to abolish a cap on childcare support, to increase the rate of subsidy, to invest an additional $2.5 billion and yet the Labor Party just played politics and voted against it. So desperate were they to find failure, that when the reforms commenced at the start of July, the Labor Party set up a website to invite people to register their complaints and their concerns about the new childcare subsidy. But do you know what happened around three weeks after the website went up? It vanished. So little interest was there in the Labor Party's complaints website that they slunk away and they shut it down because, of course, Australian families were feeling the benefit of the changes. And they will continue to see the benefit, especially when we get to early next year and they no longer hit up against that cap and they continue to get support for those services.