Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite do have a history of selectively reading the budget papers. It's not my fault if they can't understand a set of papers. This is emblematic. The only reason we are able to make judicious, significant investments in aged care is because we know how to read a set of budget papers. We know how to run an economy. That's why, year on year, we're able to invest an additional billion dollars, because we have the wit to introduce into this place significant, comprehensive, sophisticated legislation to ensure the protection and the delivery of services to our treasured older Australians. That's why we're able to do it. We made sure we didn't waste $1.2 billion providing invoices to those people who were undeserving, who were providers, and you did exactly the same the year before. (Time expired)