Anika Wells (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

WELLS (—) (): I thank the member for Hughes for her question, and I congratulate her on her first speech in the House yesterday and welcome her to this place. With respect to the question of 24/7 nurses, I was so pleased to be the minister to introduce that bill in the House yesterday morning. There were many people from this side of the House here yesterday morning to witness the very first bill to be introduced to the House in this 47th Parliament that gets to the work of reforming aged care—something that was neglected for nine very long years under the previous government.

Like the minister for the environment—I noted from an earlier answer today—in just nine weeks, in the first 100 days, we are going to deliver 17 and two: 19 recommendations of the royal commission in 100 days of this government compared to only nine in 17 months of the previous government. Compare nine in 17 months to 19 in the first 100 days. One of those goes to 24/7 nurses. Member for Page, are you coming for me on that?

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