Labor is committed to providing cheaper child care for all families.
- Working families with kids in child care are struggling right now.
- Families know how expensive and difficult the child care system is to navigate.
- Australians pay some of the highest child care costs in the world.
- In fact, fees have increased more than 35% under the Liberals.
- The way the current system works means that many women actually lose money if they work more than 3 days per week.
That’s why Labor will reduce child care costs. Our policy will:
- Scrap the $10,560 child care subsidy cap which often sees women lose money for every extra day worked.
- Lift the maximum child care subsidy rate to 90%, and
- Increase the child care subsidy rate for every family earning under $530,000.
Labor will work to fix Australia’s broken child care system which currently locks out more than 100,000 families because they just can’t afford it.