Travers McLeod is the executive director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, a social justice organisation working to prevent and alleviate poverty across Australia.
The question we should be asking those running for public office is how many Australians will come out of poverty if they win?
Australian families spend more as a share of their income on early childhood services than almost anyone else in the world, but we are ranked sixth-last in developed countries for how well we support our children.