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

As I said, this government has committed record amounts to aged care—$44 billion over the next four years. We have also recognised that, for the long term, we need to be providing the health, hospital and aged-care sectors for our ageing population, an area neglected by the coalition when they were in government. Alternatively, the Rudd government are committed to making sure we are having extensive consultations on the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report and, as we have said in the House many times, we are consulting with frontline health professionals around the country—areas which the coalition neglected time and time again.

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