Senate debates
Monday, 17 September 2018
Questions without Notice
Aged Care
2:01 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
That's upside down, Penny! Every year is an increase of $1 billion, so it's completely spurious to say that.
Since the last budget, I can confirm that we have delivered 20,000 new home care packages, 13,500 residential aged-care packages and 775 short-term restorative packages. Funding for aged care by this coalition government is at absolutely record levels. Over the next five years it will grow by $5 billion to $23.6 billion—something that every Australian should be very proud of.
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