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Crikey, in our late-night edition, explaining that:
The Coalition has publicly junked its “small government” furphy with deficits to eclipse $100 billion for the next two years, despite unemployment being expected to fall below 5%, and to exceed $50 billion in 2024-25, “making this the first budget in history designed to buy two elections in a row”
Aged care will receive $17.7 billion over four years, including plans for 80,000 new home care packages, $3.9 billion to meet long-standing demands for staffing ratios in residential care; and $3.2 billion to increase the Government Basic Daily Fee per resident paid to residential providers by $10 a day
Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese joined in on protests for greater aged care support at Federation Mall. Photo: Nathan Schmidt.
THE Health Services Union and dozens of aged care workers marched on Parliament House today (May 10) calling on the federal government to allocate more money to the aged care sector ahead of the 2021-22 Federal Budget.
Due to be passed down tomorrow (May 11), the budget is expected to allocate $10 billion over a four year period to the embattled industry, according to the union.
Its president, Gerard Hayes, said that amount is inadequate.
Instead, the union has suggested that at least $20 billion – twice the expected budgetary allocation – is needed, according to their modelling.
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Subscriber only The Health Services Union has targeted Federal Member for Flynn Ken O Dowd and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is an advertising campaign calling for aged care funding. The campaign was launched on Friday urging Mr O Dowd and Mr Morrison to address Australia s aged care crisis in the upcoming budget. The pre-budget blitz will see radio ads calling on Mr O Dowd and the Prime Minister to consider spending a night in an aged care facility, where one aged carer looks after 60 residents, and residents face long waits for their basic needs to be met. Â Health Services Union president Gerard Hayes speaks to the media during a press conference.
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Subscriber only The Health Services Union has targeted Federal Member for Flynn Ken O Dowd and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is an advertising campaign calling for aged care funding. The campaign was launched on Friday urging Mr O Dowd and Mr Morrison to address Australia s aged care crisis in the upcoming budget. The pre-budget blitz will see radio ads calling on Mr O Dowd and the Prime Minister to consider spending a night in an aged care facility, where one aged carer looks after 60 residents, and residents face long waits for their basic needs to be met. Â Health Services Union president Gerard Hayes speaks to the media during a press conference.
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