Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Minister for Education and Training) (14:32): Clearly the Labor Party tactic today is one of trying to scare people. Yesterday, they were trying to scare parents about the impact any such changes of the government might gave. Today, they are out to scare the workforce. Let us be very clear: our government's proposals are to put more than $3 billion extra into child care to make it more affordable for Australian families. Our proposals are to lift regulatory impacts on childcare providers to make it more flexible for them to deliver the types of services that Australian families need. This is a generous— Senator Wong: Mr President, I rise on a point of order on direct relevance. I know the minister wants to talk about the package. The question was not about his package. The question is about— Honourable senators interjecting— Senator WONG: Let's move on! Can the minister guarantee that short-session billing will not disadvantage any early childhood educator, including by forcing them to work casual jobs with split shifts and fewer hours? I ask the minister to return to the question. It is not a broad question about funding. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Wong. I will remind the minister of the question. Senator BIRMINGHAM: As I have made clear repeatedly to Senator Dastyari, the government has no proposals to mandate short-session billing. That is an option for commercial providers. The workforce in the childcare sector already includes casual employees, includes part-time employees and includes full-time employees. Those, of course, are again commercial business decisions undertaken by the operators and will continue to be so in the future.