Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

You talked, in your question there, about for-profit providers. We have been clear that our message to providers who put profit ahead of child safety is that they need to lift their game or leave the sector. That's why, as a parliament, we passed strong legislation to make sure we can withdraw Commonwealth childcare subsidies from those providers who do put profit ahead of safety. But I would also draw your attention to some of the reporting from Ms Ferguson this week, who pointed out that not all 'for-profit centres are bad and all non-profit centres are good, or smaller providers are necessarily better than those owned by larger corporations'. Our priority is to keep children safe wherever they are in early learning.