Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

Within days of me giving this speech, the Prime Minister will call an election, one would hope, because this fake election campaign has to end soon. In this upcoming election campaign, Australians are going to have a choice between more of the same or a better future. Australians are going to have a choice between a Morrison-Joyce government that likes to talk about reforming aged care but won't do anything about it, and an Albanese Labor government with a caucus rock solid behind him to say that the care economy is the backbone of this economy; that the women who work in the care economy deserve to have secure, well-paid jobs; and that the people whose lives, education and better future depends on the care economy deserve to be educated, cared for and looked after by people who are well trained, who are supported and who are paid in the way that they deserve to be paid. We have had aged-care workers in this parliament and outside this parliament for days, lobbying to be given the respect in residential care and home care that they deserve. They will get that and a better future from a Albanese Labor government.