Families earning up to $530,000 a year to get childcare subsidy in Labor pre-election gambit

Anthony Albanese to portray Labor as the party of equitable early education while attacking Liberals for being ‘stuck in the past’

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Labor will unveil another step towards achieving its long-term goal of universal childcare as it ramps up efforts to stave off becoming a one-term government at the next election.

In one of Anthony Albanese’s final major speeches of the year, the prime minister will announce his plans, if re-elected, to give families earning up to $530,000 a year access to the childcare subsidy for three days a week.

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