EDUCATION & CHILDCARE

$1.7B Investment to make childcare more affordable by increasing subsidy for 250,000 families.

$10,560 cap in Child Care Subsidy for families earning more than $189,390 will be scrapped.

$1.6b for preschool funding, with money rolled out through an agreement with states to deliver reforms.

$53.6m support package for independent English language and nonuniversity higher education providers.

Private schools will pocket an extra $1.7 billion in federal grants next financial year, as their funding grows twice as fast as for public schools.