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

As I indicated to the chamber yesterday, when we came to government investment into the aged-care system was about $13.3 billion. This year it will be a record $21.4 billion. But what we see from the other side is that there's been absolutely no commitment to investment in aged care, zero investment in home-care packages in the last election campaign, zero investment in workforce and, unfortunately, zero investment in improving capacity in the mainstream residential aged-care sector. What they did promise was $387 billion in additional taxes on the Australian economy. But of that $387 billion in additional taxes, they could not find one cent—not one cent—for home-care packages or mainstream aged care.

Senator Wong interjecting—