Australia correspondent Bernard Keane talks about plans to phase in a flat daily fee for childcare to avoid a flood of new enrolments.
The Federal Government is also planning to phase out those sneaky surcharges that customers can incur - an estimated billion dollars a year as more Aussies tap and go.
And it's a year since the failed Voice vote to Parliament - what's happening to give indigenous communities more of a say in how they work with state and federal government?
Bernard Keane is political editor for Crikey.com