The bill returns the private health insurance subsidy system to its original design, where households next door to each other get the same rebate, based on their income, so that households on $50,000 or $70,000 or $90,000 will all receive a quarter of their private health bill paid for by taxpayers. Now, I don't pretend this is an easy decision. I've said that from the beginning. But it is the right and necessary decision to free up the funds that we need to expand these critical aged-care services, and that is our view about better aged care.

Now, I understand the Manager of Opposition Business, when he came into the parliament this morning, moved a motion that said that those additional aged-care services—more beds, more packages—were, in his words in the motion, 'wasteful spending'. Well, that's not our view. You shouldn't be surprised—from the Liberal Party who cut funding to aged care in 2015 and 2016 and 2017, pushing the aged-care system into the crisis that led to the royal commission in the first place. Those horrific stories that Australians heard—we are determined to fix this, not supported by an opposition that pays lip-service— (Time expired)