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Albanese government to bring forward home care packages in major backdown

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Albanese government has announced 20,000 home care packages will be brought forward to be delivered before the end of October – immediately after opposing doing so in the Senate.

The Coalition, Greens and crossbenchers passed an amendment to aged care legislation moved by ACT independent David Pocock.

The vote went through without a...

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