Sam Rae (Hawke, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Aged Care and Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

They're real beds. They're older Australians getting care closer to home sooner.

Aged-care workers told us that they were undervalued, underpaid and stretched to breaking point, so we delivered the biggest pay rises in the history of aged care. There were four rounds of fully funded increases. Thanks to these pay rises, the average registered nurse in aged care is now earning $28,000 more a year. That's 550 bucks more every single week. Those opposite spent nine years in government. They had the same royal commission, the same reports, the same workers—

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