Labor hitches election fortunes to early childhood education

The federal opposition has announced a huge new investment in early childhood education if it wins the next election.

Children playing at a childcare centre at Canberra. Source: SBS

They're proposing a plan worth nearly two billion dollars to extend preschool to three-year-olds.

 

But whilst those on the Labor party's side of politics are spruiking the benefits of the plan, the federal government is claiming Labor can't pay for its promise.