The Greens say Labor is dancing to the Opposition\u2019s tune on aged care with reports that the Coalition is putting the brakes on a deal for a new Aged Care Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for Older People Senator Penny Allman Payne:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is letting the Coalition dictate terms on aged care. They caved on care minutes, they caved on criminal penalties and now they\u2019re letting the opposition delay a long overdue reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is boxing at shadows. They\u2019re so desperate to avoid Peter Dutton\u2019s attacks that they\u2019re letting him set the policy agenda \u2013 from the census questions debacle, to pulling the plug on promised religious discrimination reforms, and now keeping millions of older Australians waiting for a new Aged Care Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a government that\u2019s lost its way, and older Australians and the LGBTQI+ community are paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say Labor is dancing to the Opposition\u2019s tune on aged care with reports that the Coalition is putting the brakes on a deal for a new Aged Care Act. Greens spokesperson for Older People Senator Penny Allman Payne: \u201cLabor is letting the Coalition dictate terms on aged care. They caved on care minutes, … Continue reading “Labor dancing to Dutton\u2019s tune on aged care”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29026,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions\/29026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}