Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Shortly after coming to office, one of the things that the Prime Minister did was to call a royal commission because we were faced with the shocking findings of the inquiries into the Oakden scandal, the South Australian aged-care home that was run by the public sector under the previous Labor government there. The Prime Minister called that royal commission precisely because, on our watch, we wanted to make a fundamental difference. What we have seen is a $17.7 billion investment in aged care over and above what was in place previously. We have gone from $13.3 billion of annual expenditure, when Labor was in government, to now $27 billion, $30 billion, $32 billion and $33 billion—

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