Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

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, and 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 and home aged 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.

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