‘Desperate bid for votes’: Labor’s childcare subsidy plan slammed as ‘smoke and mirrors’

Shadow Early Childhood Education Minister Angie Bell slams Labor’s childcare subsidy plan as “smoke and mirrors”. “What we’ve seen from the Prime Minister yesterday is a desperate bid for votes,” Ms Bell told Sky News Australia. “It’s smoke and mirrors, and after three years and two reviews, all he could come up with is a rehashed Labor Rudd era style policy. “The question here is for families across the country, can they trust the Prime Minister when he has so many broken promises under his belt?”