Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Wong for the question, but I reject the premise of the question. The funding for aged care is increasing by an average of $1 billion a year, as it has done every year. When the deputy opposition leader came out last week, or two weeks ago, suggesting—as Senator Wong is doing at the moment—that we might have cut aged care, the RMIT ABC Fact Check put out a zombie alert in reference to a former senator, who talked about his whole party being zombies. That RMIT Fact Check said that the claim of the Labor Party was misleading.

We have continued to invest in aged care. When we came to government, funding for aged care was somewhere around $13 billion. It's now closer to $21 billion. (Time expired)