The government’s aged care reforms include changes to home-care support, but people in rural areas of my electorate of Indi are concerned their packages will continue to be chewed up by provider travel costs, reducing the services they actually receive.

So while this Bill isn’t perfect, it is a significant step towards fixing our aged care system.

In a cost-of-living crisis, students should not be expected to work for free.

The basis of anyone’s life is our health, and in rural and farming communities we suffer a severe lack of access to healthcare.  

They aren’t opportunists; they’re organised criminal groups that make use of any and all technologies to steal money from Australians at every age, from every demographic. It is despicable stuff.

Will the minister stand by while vital childcare services close due to a lack of government funding?

We are at a moment in our democracy that the people of Australia have been waiting a long time for—that is, to take responsibility for our actions.

With one voice, we recognise that we must do better—that we must meet the standards the public holds us to and that we hold ourselves to.

As a regional Independent, I will ensure the education needs of regional, rural and remote Australia are strongly represented.

I would argue that my amendments will help fix the holes in the government’s current plan, and I urge the government to support my amendments.