Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Polley, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) the public release of the latest quarterly data on the home care package wait list has been delayed by the Turnbull Government,

  (ii) there was a commitment to release the data two months after the period that the data covers, and this time-frame has now not been met,

  (iii) the latest figures showed around 105,000 older Australians are now waiting for a home care package they were approved for,

  (iv) the average wait time for a high level package has blown out to more than a year, and

  (v) the demand for home care packages grew by 20,000 older Australians in the last six months of 2017 alone;

(b) condemns the Turnbull Government for the aged care crisis it made on its watch; and

(c) calls on the Turnbull Government to be honest with older Australians and immediately release the latest round of data on the wait-list for home care packages.