Childcare is one of the biggest issues facing rural Australia, Littleproud says

David Littleproud made a rural childcare funding announcement in Eugowra, NSW. Video via AAP

Transcript

00:00This is something we're going to continue to lead to.

00:03The Nationals believe that this is one of the biggest issues that

00:06regional Australia is facing, is childcare, and we're going to have to

00:10have something that gives confidence, not just for the

00:13people you get out, but right across the country,

00:16that they can fight this crisis because they can go back to work.

00:19There are jobs in regional Australia and you will not attract the people of

00:23regional Australia if you don't have all the jobs.

00:25And they need to be able to handle that. So we will be leaning

00:29heavily the childcare, as well as health care.

00:32We've got to make sure that the facilities and the services out here are

00:36the same, and to the same standard you'd expect

00:39in the other city. It shouldn't matter your postcode, but

00:42when you've got a community that's prepared,

00:44I'm someone that's out here trying to make millions, but

00:48a group of mothers that are prepared to do this,

00:51I think it's a small investment in regional Australia. It's the right

00:55investment in regional Australia, and I thank them for it, and I thank

00:58them for their resilience in making sure that during their darkest

01:02hours, the first precipitous that was stood up

01:07was the childcare setup. The community came together and made sure

01:11that their children were looked after so

01:14their families could get on with the job of recovery.

01:17And this is an investment that should have been made.

01:20I can't right those wrongs, but I can right the future

01:24for the people of Yugarra in knowing that that investment is there, and I congratulate

01:28them because you're going to see a lot of

01:29money be spread around in this campaign. That's easy to do, but

01:34the hard thing to do is to find the organisations, the people

01:37that you can invest in, that are doing it for their community, doing it for their

01:41country.