Ellie Whiteaker (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I recently had the opportunity to visit Goodstart Early Learning Centre in East Bunbury, and I want to take a moment to thank Kerryn, Sally and Jessica for showing me around their wonderful centre and to thank the kids who so kindly gifted me a clock that they had decorated which sits proudly on the wall in my office. It's not every day in this job that you get the chance to sit down and play with some Play-Doh and talk about The Tiger Who Came to Tea with our youngest Australians, but it was an absolute highlight of my week.

Seeing the absolute adoration these kids had for their early childhood educators reminded me of that same love that I see in my own son when I take him into early childcare in Perth. Like so many families, my family well and truly relies on child care and the amazing work that those educators do. That's why I'm so proud of Labor's cheaper childcare plan. We have guaranteed three days of early childcare for every Australian family, which means that kids at a centre like East Bunbury get the opportunity to experience that same education and care. What is really clear to me is that early childhood educators right across this country deserve every single cent of the pay rise that our Labor government has delivered to them.