Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

That's interesting: you have the preference of the department already out there and trying to lead the consultation, yet you haven't sought to find out the preferred mechanism of your stakeholders, the very people who are required to actually implement these changes. So that is disappointing.

The minister announced in December that the alternative payment structure, whatever it happens to be, would be mandated. Can you advise how long it will be mandated for?