Early Childhood Education and Care (Strengthening Regulation of Early Education) Bill 2025

Senator HODGINS-MAY (Victoria) (09:52): I circle back to my previous question in relation to the threshold in the National Quality Standard assessments that would prevent a provider from opening a new centre if they're already operating centres. Is there some sort of standard by which you're looking at it? If half of the centres, for example, aren't meeting national quality standards, or 90 per cent of services aren't—can you provide any more detail on what that standard will look like and what is being considered in the decision to permit a new centre to open or not?