Liberal Party campaign spokesman Simon Birmingham says Bill Shorten’s childcare subsidy plan will only push prices up, not relieve the cost burden on Australian families.
He told Sky News that ‘the last time Labor tipped billions into the childcare sector, it saw fees skyrocket’ because ‘the companies simply took the money, pocketed it, and families were no better off'.
Mr Birmingham also defended his party’s preference deal with Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, saying ‘Australia has a compulsory preferential voting system and if you’re not voting Liberal or National, there’s not a lot to choose from’. He says ‘we’re obviously not going to give preferences to the racist policies of Fraser Anning, or to One Nation, not the irrational economics of the Greens, and certainly not to Bill Shorten who has $378 billion of higher taxes’.
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