Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government is committed to helping senior Australians remain in their own homes for longer, and that's why we have invested in home care at every opportunity since the 2018-19 budget, with additional funding for over 73,000 packages, at a cost of $4.6 billion. The number of packages has increased from 60,308 under Labor in 2012-13 to 185,597 in 2020-21—under this government, an increase of 208 per cent in the number of packages. Over the same period, funding will increase by 302 per cent due to the growth in the number of high-level packages. Labor went to the last election with $387 billion of new taxes and offered no additional funding for home-care packages. Home care wasn't even mentioned in their budget reply speech.