House debates

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Matters of Public Importance

Aged Care

3:37 pm

Photo of Greg HuntGreg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

zero dollars in their alternative budget, at a time of $387 billion for home-care places—zero. And then only two weeks ago they provided an alternative budget. This is very important: right now, in this moment, in an alternative budget—and knowing everything that they knew, at a time when we have put in over 70,000 home-care places—they added zero. They found money for other things. They found nothing—nothing; zero; nada—for home-care places. And that's twice in a year.

Having said that, we'll then look at what we've done specifically in relation to support for COVID. It is very important here to understand how Australia compares with the rest of the world. We have had deep tragedy in Australia—

Ms Collins interjecting

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