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

():  No-one wishes to see an older person die waiting for the care that they require, and our government understands that we need to make the investments that will make Australia's aged-care system fit for the future. Australians are getting older, and that's a good thing. We are living longer and healthier lives than any generation before us, and that means we need to make additional investments, and we need to make change.

When we came to government, the aged-care system was not fit for the population that we had, let alone fit for the future—not even close. The government that the Liberals oversaw cut $2½ billion and failed to meet the growing need for aged care.