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

As I was saying, when we look at the aged-care approvals round, there were more than 10,000 places right across the country, which included more than 5,700 new residential aged-care places and over 4,699 community care places. The allocation was a mix of residential and community care places. We understand that people want to remain in their communities for as long as possible.

When that aged-care approvals round was announced it was very pleasing to see some of the support from many members of the House. I would like to share that with members today. We have a variety of different comments that members made. The member for Hinkler said he was ‘very pleased to see all of these allocations come in’. He said:

Each of these places means more people will get the care they need, when and where they need it.

We also had the member for Gippsland, when the ACAR came out—

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