Santo Santoro (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much. Mr President, the opposition will be able to understand it if they just follow the colours: red is the Labor Party performance; blue is the Howard government’s performance. Labor’s spokesperson for aged care continues to fixate on bed numbers. Labor remains fixated on bed numbers rather on the total number of packages for aged care.

This year the Howard government has delivered on its promise of 200,000 operational aged care places. Almost 9,000 new aged care places are available for 2006-07, with a further 20,000 places to come on line in the following two years.