MONEY BUSINESS
Tomorrow’s budget will include a $17.7 billion aged care package to be delivered over four years, which
The Australian ($) reports will focus on a workforce initiative “as well as incentives to prop up private residential operators to ensure they remain profitable”.
Health and Aged Care Minister
Greg Hunt will tomorrow respond to recommendations from last year’s damning royal commission which the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work last week estimated would require $10 billion a year to implement while the budget will also reportedly include record suicide prevention funding (although nothing yet on bringing JobSeeker above poverty rates).