Senate debates
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Questions without Notice
Aged Care
2:11 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
As I was indicating, there are more people than ever before receiving home care packages. The number of people in care has increased by 13.5 per cent over the year. It's gone from 68,657 people—that was on 31 December 2016. A year later, on 31 December 2017, we had 77,918 people. That is why we're investing more than $74,000, which, can I say, is an increase of 86 per cent—
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