to come to grips with the very serious reform challenges facing a sector confronted with an unprecedented boom in demand caused by the ageing of the baby boomer population. They did worse than nothing.

What we've had to do over the last five years is to clean up their mess, to implement the royal commission recommendations, which they failed to do, and then to find a way to expand aged-care services at an unprecedented rate. We have tripled the number of Support at Home packages. I've acknowledged publicly, and in this place, that we are still struggling to keep up with demand, at a time when the oldest baby boomers, who were born in 1946, 1947 and 1948, are hitting their 80s and reaching that period of their life where they need more aged-care services. Instead of having a reasoned debate either here or in the Senate about how we can do that and how we find the funds to do that in a responsible, fiscal way, they team up with the Greens again, just like they did in the last term. They resurrect the no-alition. How they convinced the Greens party to do that after what it meant for the Greens' House of Representatives members at the election in 2025 is still a marvel to me. But congratulations to the Manager of Opposition Business and his equivalents in the Senate for leading the Greens off the plank again to decide to team up and do the political bidding of a coalition that is determined to take an irresponsible approach to aged-care services and to fiscal management.

They stand up here, question time after question time, and pretend to be the guardians of strong fiscal management, a government that delivered its last budget with not a single dollar in savings—not a single dollar in savings in the 2022 budget—by the prodigal son, Josh Frydenberg, who has now admitted he spent too much money, a position echoed by the Leader of the Opposition. If only he were in a position to do something about it. He was not willing to stand at this dispatch box and take hard decisions and make hard choices in a budget to recognise the need for the expansion of aged-care services. No, instead he was willing to put it all on the credit card. That was the approach of Josh Frydenberg, and at the time I didn't hear a whisper from the Manager of Opposition Business to say, 'Maybe we should be a little bit more careful about the government's budget.' No, they haven't learned.

The Greens party in the other place haven't learned. They're determined to thwart every serious policy measure we bring to this parliament at a time when the country has some serious challenges. There is no more serious challenge, I don't think, than the challenge of supporting the needs of a growing group of Australians aged over 80. They have built this country. They have worked so hard to build this country, and they deserve aged-care services that are high quality, that are staffed well and that are expanding at a rate that reflects that demographic expansion. And the opposition has had nothing to say about that, absolutely nothing. They are too focused on the politics. They are not focused on serious policy. They're paying lip service to sound fiscal management. We see this yet again in the motion moved by the Manager of Opposition Business.