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 September 2018 home care package data, released by the Morrison Government, reveals 126,732 older Australians are on a waitlist for a home care package,

  (ii) 69,086 older Australians are without any home care package, and

  (iii) the Morrison Government has, for the first time, completely omitted the home care package waitlist by total in the report released last week;

(b) calls on the Morrison Government to address the home care package waitlist as a matter of urgency, particularly the growing number of older Australians waiting without any package; and

(c) affirms that action by the Morrison Government is needed now, and it must deliver an appropriate response to address the growing home care package waitlist in this year's Mid-Year Economic Fiscal Outlook.