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

And again Senator Keneally chooses to misuse my words, by using them in a way that I didn't utter them, and it demonstrates the continued dishonesty of the Labor Party in asking questions in this place. The announcements that I made today with Minister Hunt are a continuation of existing programs. They're a continuation of existing programs and existing support that was put in place to support the sector through the COVID-19 outbreak. And we will continue to provide resources. As I've said on a number of occasions through the duration of the pandemic outbreak, we will continue to provide additional support as required. We got to a stage where the existing supports were due to expire. We assessed that they needed to be continued, so we made the decision to continue them, and Minister Hunt and I announced them today.