Senate debates

Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Bills

Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025; In Committee

11:09 am

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

There are two parts to my question. The first one is that, in past practice—on 26 February, in estimates this year, I asked this question of the department, and the department gave me the data from 31 January. They were quite clearly prepared at the time to provide the data in the format in which you are now claiming you can't provide the data. I'm interested to understand what has changed between 26 February and today, as to why you, the minister, representing the government, are withholding the data today when it wasn't being withheld on 26 February. Is there something that has changed in terms of how the data was dealt with between then and now?

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