Ms WELLS (Lilley—Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport) (14:54): I thank the deputy leader for her question and for some welcome and newfound interest in the future of aged care and in constructive reform in a sector that, as I just elaborated on for two minutes and 59 seconds, was neglected for nine long years under her watch—including, I would note, the deputy leader's time as Minister for Health herself. She failed to do anything substantive about aged-care reform. I would also note that the thrust of the question she asked was on a reform that they, the coalition, brought in themselves in 2014 and left completely untended and neglected until the time when they were turfed out of government for their neglect of aged care. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The minister will pause. Ms Ley interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has resumed her seat. That's not called for, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Has the minister concluded her answer? No. So I will take the point of order. The deputy leader will state the point of order. Ms Ley: On relevance: it was a very tight question relating to whether the minister rules out any changes to the treatment of the family home in aged-care assessments. The SPEAKER: The minister is on topic. She's talking about the policy. The Leader of the House on a point of order? Mr Burke: Mr Speaker, immediately before you gave the call, the comment that was made by the deputy leader was unparliamentary and should be withdrawn. The SPEAKER: I only heard the end part of it, but I agree. Those sorts of comments are not necessary when the minister had paused and taken my direction. To assist the House and to get to the answer, I'll just ask her to withdraw that statement quickly. Ms Ley: I withdraw, Mr Speaker. The SPEAKER: The minister will now return to the question and be directly relevant. Ms WELLS: I appreciate that those opposite would love to run an unfounded scare campaign on something like the family home. I appreciate it must be very tempting when they have nothing else to talk about. But what Labor believes is that we actually need to do something about aged care. That is an equitable, sustainable and trusted sector that puts people, including older people, back at the centre of aged care. That's what we need to do. So we are not going to rush the release of the report that the deputy leader refers to, nor are we going to pre-empt any decisions of the report until we have taken the time to do this properly. This is something that they neglected for nine long years on their watch. In fact, the deputy leader, when she was Minister for Health, cut funding from residential aged care and starved them of the funds that they needed to care for older Australians. After a decade of neglecting the sector for older Australians, after nearly a decade of neglecting this important reform, if they are now showing an interest in care, I welcome it. If they want to work together on this, I welcome it. But, if they want to go scaremongering, they're going to need to go elsewhere, because we are focused on options to make aged-care funding simple, fair and sustainable. This was the taskforce's job, and we are doing this in an open way and in consultation with the sector, with older people, with the public and with experts—something they never had the guts to do themselves, I might add. This is about government investing in quality care that older people want, need and deserve, and we will continue to do just that.