Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm asked in an interjection: 'Does that take into account population?' Let me tell you that the increase in the population of those aged over 65 over that period of time is 23 per cent. The real growth in funding for aged care from this government has been 50 per cent and, in addition to that, home care packages have increased by 194.86 per cent. So, in response to growing demand, this government has been taking steps, year after year after year, to increase support to ensure that we increase in-home aged-care places and that we increase support to the residential aged-care sector. Tonight we will take another bold step in addressing the very serious concerns in aged care.

The question for the Labor Party is: will they play politics with this or will they engage with the government to ensure we work together to fix what is an intractable problem that has impacted on governments of Labor and of the Liberals and Nationals for decades? We will step up tonight. The test is on the Labor opposition as to whether they will join us and step up also.

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