Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Ruston for the question. We are a Labor government and we, in some essential way, understand how important home care can be for older Australians and their families. Older Australians tell us that they want to spend as much time at home as they possibly can, and we know that their families want that too. That is precisely what our reforms are designed to deliver.

There is a lot of work to do. There is a lot of work to do because the record of the previous government was very, very bad. Indeed, it was a record that was characterised notoriously as 'neglect'. Everybody remembers that. It was a situation characterised by neglect.