An Albanese Labor Government will put nurses back into aged care, give carers more time to care, improve transparency and accountability and deliver better care.

Federal Member for Blair, Shayne Neumann said Labor’s detailed five-point plan will:

• Require a registered nurse on site 24/7 in residential care
• Give carers more time to care through an increase to 215 minutes of direct care a day to residents
• Formally support a pay rise for aged care workers
• Require better food for residents
• Require more transparency in the system so we know taxpayers’ money is going on care

“The global pandemic and a Royal Commission have confirmed what so many Australians already knew – our aged care system is in crisis,” Mr Neumann said.

“Successive Liberal-National Governments have done nothing but make the aged care crisis worse.

“Older Australians living in aged care homes across the Ipswich, the Somerset Region and the Karana Downs area have been neglected by the Morrison-Joyce Government.

“They have delayed or outright rejected key recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care.”

Mr Neumann said a Labor Government will start the long process of fixing the aged care system.

“We will make aged care a place people want to work, knowing that they will be respected and valued for the important work they do.

“To change aged care, we need to change the government.”