Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

The most recent workforce census revealed that more than 60 per cent of aged-care facilities are short of registered nurses and 50 per cent of facilities are short of carers. Low wages in this sector are universally recognised as our key problem. The Productivity Commission recommended that we develop a funding system to underpin the payment of fair and competitive wages to those workers.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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