Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee (part 2 of 2)

4 December 2025

Senate Education and Employment Committee Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:41
Speaker 6
In the interest of children's learning to the detriment of child safety and educational outcomes.  So, yeah, it's it's not just me saying it.  It is something that we are hearing from unions.  And it still just the question, and it's something we're hearing frequently about how these corporate landlords are raking in billions and eating up those subsidies that would be...  Could be so desperately used to improve the quality of our early learning system. 

And it feels that it...  That is at the heart of, also the PM's promise to build universal childcare.  Do you accept that without proper oversight and regulation of those corporate landlords in the sector that funding for affordable childcare is disappearing into corporate profits, and is that something that concerns you and the government? 
00:43 - 01:32
Speaker 70
I mean, you know, we're, focused on building, quality early education.  We're focused on, building affordable early education, which is why we increased the subsidy rate to 90%, for families on incomes of up to $85,000, saving the average family $7,500.  We are focused on accessibility of early childhood education, which is why we are implementing, a billion dollar building early education fund and for the first time getting into, the work of, assisting to to build early education infrastructure. 
01:32 - 01:33
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