to work. Those days are in the past and those days must never return. We now know and we have all of the domestic and international research that shows very clearly that those first five years of a child's life are absolutely critical to their future development. We know that those early years will help to determine the future educational outcomes, social outcomes, health outcomes and development outcomes of Australian children. So it is in all of our best interests that we ensure that parents have peace of mind that when they drop their children off in the morning that they receive quality care and services. We also know that it is incredibly important for Australian children to get the best quality care in these early years. We also know that it is important for our nation's future that we invest in early childhood education services for families for children but also for our future productivity. I am very glad that we are working in partnership to look at the 'next steps' in our reform process. As I said this morning, any government that says they have all the answers to make early childhood care easy are lying to you. We know there is no one silver bullet, that there will always be changes to our workplaces, there will always be changes to the structure of families, there will always changes to the sort of services that need to adapt to help Australian families. That is a process that we