‘Propping up a failed system’: Labor looks beyond PC on childcare

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The government is considering different ways of paying for childcare, including a flat daily fee, as the Productivity Commission’s recommendation for extra subsidies was criticised as spending billions more on a system that has failed to deliver the promised results. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declined to endorse the commission’s proposed model on Thursday, as Victorian Labor MP Michelle Ananda-Rajah said spending another $5 billion a year on subsidies, as proposed by the commission, was “propping up a failed system”.

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