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7.35am BST
Patricia Karvelas asks Matt Canavan whether he believes child care is ‘outsourcing childcare’
I don’t. My perspective here is that if we as a nation can afford to provide additional assistance to families on incomes of up to $350,000 and that is what the child legislation does, surely we can provide some additional support for those parents that make the choice to look after their own children, especially given the large inequity that exists in our tax system where single income families on just adequate, modest incomes, household incomes of 90 or $100,000 a year which is average these days, they can be paying $10,000 more in their tax after childcare subsidies compared to the double income family.
Now that is not particularly fair. So we help the families on $350,000, that is a lot of money.
7.26am BST
Would the Nationals support net zero by 2050 if agriculture was removed? (Which is the position Michael McCormack had floated months ago and David Littleproud repeated this morning.)
Matt Canavan:
That is just one industry. The people and NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, and others who propose net zero emissions, is effectively a slogan right now, not a policy. Three words, net zero emissions.
It sounds good but there is not a lot of detail behind it. When New Zealand adopted their net zero emissions target, at least they did serious work, they did serious economic modelling at what the impact on their economy would be.
