Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens didn't support this motion. That is not because we don't care about aged care but because we want to have a debate on the really substantive matters in aged care. Yes, there was a mistake made. That was corrected here, and we also had a substantive period during estimates when we discussed these matters. We actually want to debate the substantive issues around aged care. There are very substantive issues around aged care. There is a huge waiting list for home care places. That is not questioned; it's the degree. Let's debate the real issues, which are: How do we get people who are in home care packages further up in order to get the higher care packages? What are we doing about complex residential care? Those are the issues I want to talk about. I do not want to argue over whether somebody made a mistake in this place, which they corrected anyway and which we had a substantive debate about in estimates. Let's talk about the real issues in aged care. I'm happy to debate them in this place at any time. (Time expired)