It's the bulk of the contribution. However, now that I think about it, I'll just add a couple of points to this overall piece. The aged-care assessment tool that is the subject of the second reading amendment that I just spoke to represents, as far as I can tell, a kind of advanced evolutionary point of a current trend within government and bureaucratic decision-making. That trend is towards automated decision-making by government departments and by service delivery systems. We see it, as I said earlier, in what is intended for the NDIS. We see it in other areas. Health care came up as a topic of conversation during an earlier piece of legislative debate, and we heard a bit of a response to the concerns raised in that debate.

The Greens were framed by the government as scaremongering when it comes to automated decision-making in government processes. Well, I'm sorry—if you look at what is actually happening to older people in Australia right now who are being subjected to the assessment tool, there is a lot to be scared of. This is horrendous. What we are finding, through inquiries and through evidence given by community members and advocates, is a tool which is systematically leading to older Australians being left without the funding and support that they need to be able to live with any kind of dignity.

People from the government have said, 'Well, government decision-making and government systems must be able to be simplified into systems and decision points that can be subjected to automated processes.' I'm sorry; human life doesn't really work like that, folks. I'm really, really sick—and I know so many of my constituents in WA are sick to the back teeth—of hearing Labor and Liberal governments moan about the complexity of delivering services to the communities that they were elected and commissioned to serve, as though the community is meant to feel sorry for a government and a bureaucracy that was, at times, being forced to reckon with the fact that people don't fit neatly into boxes.

I've had senior government bureaucrats give evidence in estimates and outline in detail how difficult it is for their teams to work in situations where there might be a right to appeal or a right to query a decision made by government, how unreasonable that level of flexibility is. Well, that's not good enough, folks, because older people, disabled people, people accessing the healthcare system—they vote at elections and they expect and demand a government that is able to deliver services that reflect the complexity of their experience and the complexity of their needs. What we have in the aged-care assessment tool is something which has utterly failed to do that, leaving so many people without—the very people we should be dedicated every day to providing with the support they need, when they need it, in the way that works best for them.