Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

We certainly will be consulting with those providers as we roll out this initiative. We will be working with providers to make sure that they can access the workforce that they need. What we will also do as a result of this legislation is ensure that older Australians living in rural and remote areas get the kind of nursing care that they deserve in rural and remote nursing homes—something, again, that was neglected by the former government. We are determined to fix that and make sure that all Australians get the aged-care services they deserve whether they live in the bush or in the cities.