Ms COLLINS (Franklin) (15:31): I have to say that that was one of the worst defences I've ever seen in an MPI. After six years, all he could talk about was a pipeline of infrastructure that may or may not happen in years to come. You're not talking about your record, because your record includes a cut in every budget of pensioners' take-home pay. That's what you're doing. In every budget you are trying to cut money from pensioners. Today the Prime Minister referred to pensioners as welfare recipients. That's what we heard in question time today. We also heard in question time today that, after six years, four ministers and billions of dollars cut out of the aged-care system, he will not take responsibility for where we are with aged care today. Yesterday was the first anniversary of the royal commission being called. Yes, we did welcome it, because this government had done nothing for years and had ripped money out. We did welcome it. The Prime Minister is the architect of $2 billion in cuts to the aged-care system. It has been absolutely cut. Some 129,000 older Australians are sitting on the waiting list for home care. The wait times have doubled for home care. The list has gone from 88,000 to 129,000. The average wait time for people to get a care package in their home has doubled. A week doesn't go by without another disturbing report from the royal commission about either home care or residential care. We are deeply concerned about the accreditation and regulation failures under this government. Even Earle Haven happened under your new regulations with you in charge. You need to accept responsibility for what is happening in the aged-care system today. It is not acceptable to have the Prime Minister come in here and pretend that he has had nothing to do with this, when he was the architect of those cuts. It's not okay. None of this had to happen. The government has dozens of reports sitting on its desk on how to fix this—dozens of them. We can talk about them. There is the Law Reform Commission report on elder abuse. It made 43 recommendations. How many of them have been fully implemented? The majority of them still have not been. Let's look at the Tune legislated review report. For two years that has been on the government's desk. There were over 30 recommendations. How many of them have been fully implemented? Not even half. Next month the Carnell-Paterson review will have been sitting on the government's desk for two years. What have they done with that? There were 10 recommendations. How many of them have been fully implemented? Two—two out of 10—after what happened at Oakden, which is one of the reasons the royal commission was called. We had the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health today say, 'We'll get Kate Carnell to do a report into what happened at Earle Haven.' She already did a review of Oakden, and yet you still haven't implemented those recommendations. How long is the report on Earle Haven going to take you to implement? We heard the Prime Minister admit today that he's not going to do anything until the royal commission gives its final report in November 2020. Older Australians who are sitting in the aged-care system today waiting for a home care package or suffering neglect in the aged-care residential system cannot wait two more years for the government to do something. It has taken them two years to not act on their existing reports; how long will it take to fully implement any recommendations of the royal commission? We will still be here in 10 years time with a government not doing anything. Hopefully, we will have won an election by then, because we will do something. Those on the other side can never be trusted when it comes to aged care. We had bipartisan support for some serious reforms with Living Longer Living Better in 2013, and what have we seen from this government? Even though we extended an offer to deal with the seriousness of this and offered bipartisanship in trying to deal with the issues, what have we got in return? We've got obfuscation and a lack of responsibility. This is a government in its third term after six years. You still don't have a plan to fix it. How does the home care package waitlist go from 88,000 to 129,000 and you not have a plan to fix it? The Prime Minister said, 'We might do something else.' It's not okay for you to say to people in their 90s sitting at home waiting for home care, 'We will get a report in 2020 and then we might fully implement something in a couple of years to come.' It's not okay. It's not good enough. Older Australians, their families and their loved ones cannot afford to wait for this government to work out that it was re-elected, that it has to fix these things and that it needs to implement all of the reports sitting on its desk.