Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

that's the word—neglect by the former government in this area. The Albanese government intends to turn things around in the aged-care sector. Unfortunately, we can't wave a wand and solve all of the problems we inherited from the former government, but we're working on it. Of course, the first thing we're doing is putting nurses back into nursing homes. We're putting dignity and respect back in the centre of aged care—something that was not done by the previous government.

Residential aged-care homes will be required to have a registered nurse on site and on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week from 1 July 2023 in line with the government's election commitment. It's in this way that neglected older Australians will get the respect that they didn't get, that they failed to get, under the previous government. Of course, the promise I've just referred to there was a recommendation of— (Time expired)