Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Questions without Notice
Aged Care
2:44 pm
Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) | Hansard source
Thanks, Senator Urquhart, for the question. She is right to quote the Prime Minister on the fact that aged care is one of the priorities of the government, because it clearly is one of the priorities of the government, and I've heard the Prime Minister make that comment in quite a few forums. In fact, he addressed our party room on Tuesday to say exactly the same thing. It is one of the key priorities, and we went to the election with that priority. That's why yesterday I was so delighted to announce that the number of home care packages in the market to the end of June last year had grown by 25,000. That's a significant achievement by this government that we had an extra 25,000 home care packages in the market. That's why at the last—
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