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

So, yes, the number is still 869, it was also 869 when you didn't do anything about it, and it is thousands when we add the 200 care minutes, which is the other commitment that we speak about often. The thing to note when they ask us perplexedly where these workers are going to come from is that it is a problem that you chose to do nothing about. You had this problem for years and years and years. It's probably worth asking at this point, when we talk about aged-care workforce shortages, where it all stemmed from. It stemmed from December 2013, when one of the first actions of the Abbott government was to cut the aged-care workforce compact.

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