Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that the minister could not explain why no agreements have been signed, some two months after the minister indicated that these agreements would be reached very soon. Can the minister confirm that Minister Brough is in fact raiding the disability assistance package announced in June in order to fund the bilateral agreements? If the funding for the bilateral agreements is coming from the disability assistance package, does this mean that non-government providers from Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the ACT will be frozen out of any additional funding to support older carers of people with disabilities?