Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (15:06): I fear that members opposite are in fact misleading the House in this area. I really do. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: There will be silence on my left. Mr Shorten interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition will desist. Mr ABBOTT: My recollection of this is that the former government did make capital funding available for Indigenous childcare centres. Ms Kate Ellis interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is warned. Mr ABBOTT: It made no recurrent funding available and the capital funding came out, as I understand it, on 1 July this year. So members opposite, when they were in government, made capital funding available. The capital funding that they made available ceased, as I understand it, on 1 July and they never made recurrent funding available because, quite properly, they thought recurrent funding for preschools should be provided by state and territory governments. I know they have got— Mr Shorten interjecting— Mr Hockey interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition and the Treasurer will desist. Mr ABBOTT: Members opposite cannot help themselves. They think that more money is the answer to every single problem. The reality is that if there have been any cuts in this particular area, they are cuts put in place by the former government.