Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

That is one of the issues that the community and the sector have—that often these figures are not broken down, so the figures that we have to rely on are the figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. This goes to the issue of how budget estimates are done, and I do not want to spend too much time reflecting on that. But that is the problem, and when Senator Bernardi says, ‘Do some modelling’, we are providing figures that are publicly available and that the sector uses for its decision making. So, that is perhaps an issue that also needs to be addressed.