Senate debates
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Motions
Aged Care
3:10 pm
Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) | Hansard source
I'd ask the people of Australia: do you think it is urgent that we should make changes to a computer algorithm that is making decisions about older Australians that is causing them to die while they wait for the care that they need? I don't believe that there is any more urgent thing that we should be doing in this place or the other place. The fact is that this place has already passed legislation. The will of this chamber is that the algorithm requires human override. What we're seeing today, though, is the urgency has been escalated because of the Four Corners program last night—
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