Senate debates

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Questions without Notice

Aged Care

2:48 pm

Photo of Tammy TyrrellTammy Tyrrell (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

The government's $2.2 billion investment in aged care is just a stopgap. It won't touch the more than 13,000 registered nurses and 32,000 personal care workers we need to fix the workforce gap. The government has had more than two years to get this right: two years to support the workforce, two years to evaluate the regulation—a regulation you're about to add an extra 15 minutes to. Even the Australian National Audit Office said there was no evaluation strategy in October last year. Why is there still no publicly available information on the evaluation of the regulation?

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