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The Coalition has introduced the Aged Care Amendment (Restoring Human Override for Aged Care Needs Assessments) Bill 2026 which would force the Albanese Government to do what it has refused to do for months and put qualified assessors — not a computer algorithm — back in charge of aged care decisions.

The Albanese Labor Government's announcement today that it is creating a special priority assessment pathway for MND patients to access aged care support is a clear admission that its Integrated Assessment Tool is failing and human override must be reinstated urgently.

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has dramatically confirmed that Labor's misguided approach to illicit tobacco has failed on health, on law enforcement, and on budget integrity.