STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr VENNING (Grey) (13:42): Only yesterday, the Mayor of Adelaide—sorry, the Premier of South Australia was spruiking the expansion of out-of-school-hours care, OSHC. At the same time, OSHC was closed down in Stirling North and Quorn. Despite operators working closely with the Department of Education, there was no meaningful intervention—no workers, no support, no solution.

Regional Australia continues to be treated as an afterthought. Now, families who depend on these services have been left scrambling. In the regions, alternatives do not exist.

People lean on grandparents, friends and family to fill the gap that government refused to. That's not a system; that's abandonment. State and federal Labor must do better and work with locals, councils and departments to find a solution to help these communities.

Labor face a simple test: will they vote for our tax back guarantee, delivering bigger and better tax cuts for working Australians, or will they vote to keep taking more money from Australians? Australians are doing it tough. Power bills are up.

Groceries cost more. Housing costs more. Families are working harder but too often feel like they're standing still.

At a time like this, government shouldn't be benefiting from bracket creep and quietly taking a bigger share of people's pay packets. Our tax back guarantee is simple: if Australians work harder and earn more money, they should keep more of what they earn.