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

I'm talking about the support for aged-care workers. I've just talked about how we are supporting aged-care workers. I would now make the point that across the summer one of the members of the coalition toured aged-care facilities and delivered certificates to aged-care workers. I ask: did those certificates have in fine print that the coalition refused to support a pay rise for the aged-care workers receiving certificates? Did those certificates state that if the coalition was still in government some of those registered nurses would be $10,000 a year worse off than what they are now under the Albanese Labor government? Did the certificates state that the coalition would not support the tax cut for aged-care workers? Then, maybe, they crossed that out and said that actually maybe they would support tax cuts for aged-care workers, and then maybe they said, 'No, we'll go back and we won't support the tax cuts for aged-care workers— (Time expired)

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