Mr HUNT (Flinders—Minister for Health and Aged Care) (14:56): The proposition of the question is false. Aged-care funding has gone up each year, every year, under this government. Each year has been a record. Last year we had a $17.7 billion additional investment. In one budget alone, additional investment— Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: I just ask the minister to resume his seat for a moment. I would've thought, given the leniency that I just showed on that question, that members on my left would've been keen to hear the answer to the question. But the level of interjections is too high. I've given you a general warning. I don't know what more I can do to put you on notice that you'll be enjoying the rest of the afternoon outside the chamber if you keep interjecting. I don't enjoy throwing people out. You work so hard—everybody works so hard—to get in here. I don't know why people are so keen to get thrown out. The minister for health has the call. Mr HUNT: Each year, every year, under this government, funding has gone up to record levels in aged care. No person in Australian history has invested more money in aged care and overseen greater reform in aged care than this Prime Minister. He was the one who went where Labor was afraid to go and brought in a royal commission into aged care, following the scandal of Oakden in a public aged-care facility in South Australia under the previous Labor government— Mr Stephen Jones interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Whitlam will leave under 94(a). The member for Whitlam then left the chamber. Mr HUNT: a scandal which should lead to absolute shame on the opposition benches but about which they seem to have airbrushed from their memory. But, as a consequence, the royal commission called out historic neglect, called out an intergenerational challenge that this country has faced. The response has been an investment going from $13 billion, increasing now as we see it, to $27 billion, to $30 billion, to $32 billion, to $33 billion—a $20 billion increase from when Labor was last in government to the end of the current forward estimates, again to be increased in this year's budget. And, as part of that, what we have done in particular is put in place absolutely vital aspects of higher care. And that includes actions, which have passed this House, to put in place greater screening for workers. And these are being blocked. These measures to protect aged-care residents are being blocked in the Senate right now by Labor. They are standing in the way of protection for older Australians. So they come to the dispatch box. They come to this House. They talked about assisting older Australians in residential aged care and they blocked the very means of delivering that protection for older Australians. They have learned nothing from Oakden, they have learned nothing from their failure to invest when they were in government and they have learned nothing from what has occurred in other countries around the world—a world in which we see that Australia has one of the lowest rates of a loss of life in aged care. Each one of those lives lost is an agony for the families involved, but each one of those lives saved is something for which we should be thankful, and, above all else, I thank the workers who contribute to that. (Time expired) Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! I know we're all tired. Everybody's tired. It has been a very long 48 hours. Let's just try to get through it.