Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Ten projects have also been funded aimed at supporting people from CALD backgrounds: $3.9 million for 10 organisations to deliver projects to benefit 600,000 people aged over 65 who were not born in Australia. Often, as people age, they can lose their English language capacities if English is not their first language, so it is important to provide good support. For example, the Alzheimer's Australia South Australian branch is developing a smartphone app to help the provision of CALD services to older people with dementia, and the Multicultural Centre for Women's Health will receive funding to help working carers from CALD backgrounds manage their multiple responsibilities of working, family and care. It is a great program and it is one that I know, from talking to Mr Neumann, that the opposition also strongly supports.