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

Thank you very much, President. I can't think of anything that is more urgent than older Australians dying because they're being misassessed by an algorithm that's been put in place by this government. People are dying. There is nothing more urgent than putting in place in this chamber and in this parliament measures to prevent people from dying. So I don't think anybody in here would disagree that there is nothing more urgent than making sure that people are not dying unnecessarily, because legislation and, quite frankly, a computer are making decisions that leave their care needs so underfunded and under-resourced that they're dying while they're waiting for the care that they have been assessed as needing.

I don't believe I need to stress the urgency of this motion any more, but, quite frankly, the fact that the government, since the introduction of the new reforms into aged care in November last year, have failed—