Childcare

We know just how important safe, affordable childcare is for working families. It means kids are properly looked after, parents can actually get to work, and every child gets a fair start early.

In February 2025, parliament voted on the Three Day Guarantee – a law giving every eligible family three days a week of subsidised childcare, worth about $1,460 a year for a family on $50,000 to $100,000. Pauline Hanson voted no on it, twice.

Now she's proposing childcare should be less subsidised, to “encourage parents to look after their own children” – part of One Nation's income-splitting policy. So we dug deeper to check how she's actually voted on it.

• 2025 – Hanson voted no on the Three Day Guarantee twice, a bill that went on to give more than 100,000 families extra subsidised hours. Malcolm Roberts voted the same way, and Barnaby Joyce voted no against the same bill in the House.
• 2019 – families with high-needs kids had been left with nowhere to send them, and parliament had the chance to get emergency funding out to them. Hanson voted no.
• 2017 – when the people looking after our kids were earning as little as $21 an hour, parliament voted on giving them a pay rise. Hanson and Roberts voted no.

One Nation's current policy is to scrap the childcare subsidy altogether and replace it with a tax deduction instead.

We'd rather you look into this yourself than take our word for it. See the full record on childcare, with every vote sourced.