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Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025
House of Representatives
Senate
Assent
Topics
aged care care providers healthcare healthcare administration professional licensing public health taxation
Introduced by: The Hon Mark Butler MP (ALP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Jenny McAllister ALP
“I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. AGED CARE AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2025 I move that this Bill be read a second time. I introduce the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025.”
Anne Ruston LIB
“I rise to speak on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025, which are integral in delivering the Aged Care Act 2024. Hence, they are absolutely essential to delivering the recommendations of the aged care royal commission, which was instituted under the former coalition government.”
Helen Polley ALP
“I rise to speak on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025. There are over three million Australians currently over the age of 70, and it’s crucial that we get the policy settings right in the aged-care space.”
Leah Blyth LIB
“I think I’ll just start by saying there are people dying now waiting for home-care packages. There have been 5,000 older Australians who have died waiting for their home-care packages that were approved.”
“I rise to speak on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and the associated bill. These bills and the Aged Care Act 2024 should be about responding to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The stories that emerged in the course of that inquiry were sickening.”
Wendy Askew LIB
“I, too, would like to contribute to this debate on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025. I rise today to speak on behalf of the millions of older Australians, particularly those in Tasmania, who are being left behind by a government that promised reform but continues to deliver confusion and delays.”
Kerrynne Liddle LIB
“Yet again, I rise in this place to support bills that have only come about through Labor mismanagement and delays. I rise to contribute to the debate on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 and the associated bill.”
Sean Bell PHON
“I rise to speak on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. I do so in the interests of ensuring that our senior Australians receive the best care, which they deserve. Importantly, this means making the rollout of aged-care support as seamless and timely as possible. The coalition and I support the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, subject to our amendments.”
“We are at a watershed moment for aged care in our country. After four years of work across the first term of our government and this term, we are at a point where we are about to usher in a historic new aged-care act, the first in a generation. It will be a generational reform for not only millions of Australians now but also our future selves.”
Dorinda Cox ALP
“I also rise to speak on the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Bill 2025 and the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, also known as the ACOLA Bill.”