Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator, for that question. Our older Australians deserve to be cared for with love, respect and dignity, and that is what is driving everything that we are doing as a government. By establishing a new independent Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission we're giving older Australians and their families the confidence that they will be properly protected in the system that should care for them.

Senator Polley interjecting—

We're investing $50 million for the Quality Care Fund to assist residential aged-care providers to transition to this new aged-care quality standard. We're delivering greater transparency; we're delivering greater accountability in the quality of aged care through our investment in robust risk profiling of aged-care providers and the introduction of a performance-rating system against those quality standards, with a user-friendly provider comparison tool on the My Aged Care website. And can I say to the interjections of those opposite: this is something you never did when you were in government.