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. 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.

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