Aged Care Minister Anika Wells announced the long-awaited pay rise for aged care workers will cost the federal budget more than $11 billion.
Turning to other issues, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been asked about the government’s housing fund.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it ‘beggars belief’ the Greens and others don’t support the government’s housing fund.The treasurer said the government engaged with crossbench senator David Pocock and others to pass the important piece of legislation. The housing legislation never made it to the Senate after Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather said his party would not support it withoutHe also lashed the Greens and other parties for not supporting the fund.
“There are also settings in migration that [Immigration] Minister Giles and [Home Affairs] Minister O’Neil and I have been looking very carefully at, we’ll have more for you on that soon,” she said.“I welcome the challenge. It is too important for us to fail,” Wells said.Aged Care Minister Anika Wells is speaking in Canberra now and says Australia has “turned a corner” for addressing pay issues in the sector.“Today, we turn a corner for aged care in Australia,” Wells said.
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