Good afternoon. Anthony Albanese has announced his childcare plan ahead of next year’s election, promising a $1bn fund to build and expand childcare centres.
In a speech on Wednesday, the prime minister described the policy – which would start with more than 160 early education and care centres being built or expanded – as the “biggest investment by an Australian government ever in new childcare services”. Albanese also announced that, if re-elected, he would give families earning up to $530,000 a year access to the childcare subsidy for three days a week.
