Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move Australian Greens amendment (1) on sheet 3117:

(1) Chapter 4, clauses 190 to 337A, page 195 (line 1) to page 347 (line 17), to be opposed.

This would take out the whole of chapter 4. And while the Greens support the wealthy paying their fair share, opening the door to an expanded user-pays model only risks serving to increase the profits of the private providers that are already robbing older people blind. We have significant concerns this bill, and in particular this part of the bill, takes aged care down a path that it will be very difficult to unwind. Instead of treating aged care as health care, this bill has completely embedded it as a marketplace. Participants and the government will continue to subsidise for-profit aged-care providers, and for this reason we are strongly urging and moving for the removal of chapter 4. I commend this amendment to the chamber.