Over a million families paying for childcare are a step closer to more relief after the federal government introduced its long-awaited subsidy legislation to parliament.
Education Minister Jason Clare tabled the $4.5 billion reforms, which were a key promise at the last election, on Tuesday.
It comes as cost-of-living pressures continue to bite families and after the government recruited the competition watchdog to investigate the cost of childcare, which it said had risen by 41 per cent in the last eight years.
