The Greens have announced a plan to have a “full national regulator that would have the power to shut down [child care] centers that aren’t keeping our kids safe, and aren’t meeting the basic minimum standards”.

Adam Bandt said he wants to see early childhood education treated the same as primary schools.

Early learning should not be an opportunity for these corporations to take billions of dollars in subsidies from Labor and the Liberals only to leave our children wanting and falling behind basic standards.”