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

Every child deserves access to quality early learning no matter their postcode or what their parents do. That's why Labor's three-day guarantee started this year on 5 January. Just like every child has the right to go to school, every child now has the right to a three-day childcare subsidy and every parent has the subsidy support they need to get back to work when they're ready.

In their 10 long wasted years in government, the coalition had a different approach. They reduced flexibility for mums with their punishing work activity test. They cut off childcare subsidies for mums who wanted to work fewer than three days a week. They cut off childcare subsidies for mums who wanted to return to work just one or two days a week, as so many mums do. They locked families out, and we are backing families in.