Labor leader Anthony Albanese has made a $2.5 billion pledge to improve the treatment of older Australians with an aged care package that opens a wider election fight on “fairness and decency” by holding out the promise of higher wages for millions of workers.
Labor promised in 2020 to increase the maximum subsidy rate to 90 per cent for families up to $80,000 and remove the annual subsidy cap, but the government matched this last year by removing the subsidy cap and introducing a higher subsidy for families with more than one child under six. “A renewal of the best of Australia’s values: fairness, decency, supporting aspiration, looking out for each other, rewarding hard work.“I want the sacrifices all of you have made through these tough times to lead to a better future.”Credit:But the speech made no mention of the key government measures in the budget on Tuesday night – the $8.
With the budget reply competing for attention with Wednesday’s service for cricketer Shane Warne and Thursday’s, the Labor strategy was to focus on a single big policy measure and hold other major pledges for the formal election campaign. The Labor policy consists of five measures starting with a regulation that requires every aged care facility to have a registered, qualified nurse on site at all hours of the day and on every day of the week.
The fourth measure is to promise better food for residents by setting a mandatory nutrition standard for aged care. The fifth is to promise “integrity and accountability” with more staff and funding for the Aged Care Safety Commissioner, as well as new powers to oversee the sector.
Excellent. The same needs to be invested in homelessness.
AlboForPM
When the animals in the zoo are looked after better than our aged we have a government rotten to the core!! Shame on you Morrison, Hunt and the man caught out at the cricket Richard Colbeck AWOL MIA!! LNP and Morrison 'Scott to go!!