Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source

Senator, you have worked in this sector and you know the problems of the old assessment processes. They weren't fair or consistent and Australians were left waiting. We tripled the number of homecare packages—420,000—by the end of the financial year; it's triple what was provided in 2020.

Secondly, it is the case that we know that the ageing of the population means that the number of people needing help at home is increasing. We are working to bring down wait times across the board—