MORRISON CAN’T COVER UP HIS CUTS TO AGED CARE

HON JULIE COLLINS MP.
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MORRISON CAN’T COVER UP HIS CUTS TO AGED CARE
HON JULIE COLLINS MP
Scott Morrison’s announcement on home care for older Australians is too little too late, and doesn’t make up for his cuts to aged care.
 
There are more than 120,000 older Australians stuck on a waiting list for a home care package – today’s announcement is a drop in the ocean.
 
Morrison cut $1.2 billion from aged care in his first budget as Treasurer. This doesn’t even reverse Morrison’s cuts.
 
The Government said it solved this problem in the May Budget – this funding is a concession that it hasn’t even scratched the surface of the growing crisis under Its watch..
 
When Christmas comes around, there will still be 127,000 older Australians waiting for the home care package they have been approved for.

Many older Australians have been languishing on the wait list for their approved home care for a year or more while the Liberals ignored the problem.

Scott Morrison did nothing when the waitlist for home care packages hit 108,000 in August. He did nothing when the list reached 121,000 in September.

As this home care waitlist kept growing, Scott Morrison and the Liberals did nothing.

They have been too distracted by dysfunction and division.

Labor said the packages announced in the Budget would be woefully inadequate and today’s announcement sadly proves it.
Health and Aged Care