Senate debates Questions without Notice

Aged Care


Joe Ludwig

Joe Ludwig Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate

2:52 pm

I thank Senator Williams for the question. What I can provide is: in addition to those places, the Rudd government also allocated a record $51 million in capital grants—the largest single capital grant allocation by any Australian government. So what this government is working on is ensuring that we provide aged-care facilities, that we have 10,447 new aged-care places, worth an estimated $347 million in annual recurrent grants—

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