Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

ALLAGHER (—) (): I thank Senator Rice for the question—I think I've answered it. Labor's policy, which we took to the campaign, was to implement this commitment from 1 July 2023. That was the commitment we made. The Prime Minister has made it clear we're going to do what we said we'd do. We're going to implement our election commitments.

I accept that others have different positions and different policies that they may have taken to the election, but we're going to implement the one we took, which is 1 July. It will allow for this significant change to occur through the budget, but it will also deal with some of the implementation issues around that and some of the workforce challenges, working with providers to make sure the arrangements are in place from 1 July.