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

I welcome the opportunity to talk about workforce shortages and the numbers of workforce shortages, specifically about those numbers that came out in estimates. I think it was 1 April, off the top of my head, when these numbers were being discussed.

What's important to note here is that these numbers were the modelling of the then Morrison government when being told about workforce shortages. The difference is that we are actually doing something about it. We are doing something about workforce shortages. They were given a secret report that, on the theme of today, they chose not to tell people about. They were told the bad news and decided not to tell Australians anything about it but to try to skate through.

So, yes, when we're talking about workforce, there are different numbers for different things, and the 869 was for—

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