Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

The question actually demonstrates why this government is taking this matter so seriously, why this government has, since last year's budget, invested $2.2 billion in new home care packages and why it increased the number of home care packages last financial year by 25 per cent, which for the first time has actually reduced the waiting list. This government not only takes this matter seriously; it continues to act.

We called the royal commission because we wanted a forensic review of this industry, this sector more broadly, so that when we did reform the sector—