Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm quite happy to take a question from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition about aged care, because we went to the election with a comprehensive plan to fix aged care. It included putting the nurses back into nursing homes 24 hours a day, because we know that that's one of the issues that are having an impact on emergency departments. If you don't have a nurse in a nursing home, when an elderly person gets sick they can often end up getting an acute health condition because there isn't someone on site to help them. That's what the royal commission said. That's what we're responding to.

I find it just beyond comprehension that—after nine years of neglect from those opposite on aged care, after having an aged-care royal commission which made very clear recommendations—the response of the opposition is to come in here and to ask questions like this, not to ask questions—

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