Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Today we as a parliament have delivered a significant win for tens of thousands of older people in need of aged-care support at home. The Greens and the crossbench are delivering for our communities, and it shows that, despite Labor's massive majority in this place, we can still encourage them into making real, meaningful change for regular people in the community.

After months of pressure from the Greens and the crossbench, the government has announced it'll bring forward the planned 83,000 home-care packages and begin to release them immediately, with 20,000 released prior to 1 November. The government had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this outcome. They had to suffer—

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