Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously, there has been documentation in relation to the release of 24,100 packages in this financial year, which shows that at the moment the average wait time for packages of all levels is five months, but the projection is that the average wait time for packages will actually be six months by the time we get to 30 June 2025. So I'm keen to understand: what is the modelling that you have that says what your projections are if you are going to release 30,000 packages a year, when we have a backlog of nearly 80,000 as we stand here and 800,000 other people coming on? What are your projections? You can say that you're hoping for a three-month wait. I'm keen to understand: what is the modelling that you've done to establish either that you're able to achieve three months or that you're not?