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House of RepresentativesTuesday 29 July 2025

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:02): I'll ask the minister to supplement, but I'll say this: we introduced and passed through this parliament on a bipartisan basis the most significant reforms to aged care this century. We did that just last year, and we did that after a royal commission described aged care in one word in its interim report. That one word was 'neglect'.

When we went to the 2022 election saying that we would put the nurses back into 'nursing home', we were mocked by those opposite. Today, 99 per cent of the time, there is a nurse in an aged-care facility. That is a good thing.

We have been working through all of these issues, including the reform to both residential aged care and home care. We have been working through that and making an enormous difference, and it has been positive. With the ageing of the population, we have put in additional investment after what was a period of a decade of neglect by the former government.

SourceHouse of Representatives, Tuesday 29 July 2025 — official recordTA-250729-house-71b7800d2db2:s156