Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

So that is what we suffer. For 15 years, I worked in the aged-care sector. I saw the aged-care sector in the early 2000s. Many of the aged-care homes resembled Dickensian workhouses, with the overwhelming stench of urine; with four residents stuck in a room; with residents often pressing their buzzers, waiting for someone to come and help. I have seen what the injection of private sector innovation and funds and investment into this sector has done for the lives of these people who have very little time left on this planet. I have seen the innovation in care. I have seen the difference that we have been able to make in this country by opening up this sector. I have seen the damage that government intervention created. For those opposite to claim otherwise is, simply put, dishonest. (Time expired)

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