Justine Elliot (Richmond, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Those figures I outlined before bring the total of operational aged care places in Western Australia to more than 19,900. As I said to the House last week, with this government’s commitment to health, hospital and aged-care reform, we have been going around the country speaking to many frontline health professionals about the future of our health and aged-care systems, an area that the coalition neglected whilst they were in government. We saw a severe lack of funding right across the sector when it comes to aged care. It is this government that has delivered record funding to aged care and delivered increased compliance when it comes to aged care.

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