The Aged Care Bill has been read a third time in the House of Representatives and is expected to be scheduled for debate in the Senate next week.
Amendments will be proposed in the Senate, including from the Opposition led by Shadow Minister Anne Ruston, which made 32 recommendations in the Senate Inquiry Report.
When any amendments are approved in the Senate, the Bill will go back to the House of Representatives for a final vote.
With only eight sitting days before Parliament breaks, the Government has a busy agenda on its hands. There are bills before Parliament relating to child care worker wages, education funding, gambling advertising, misinformation and disinformation, equal pay for equal work, the right to disconnect, family law, made in Australia laws, and more.
A spoksperson for the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care said after its third reading the bill progresses to the Senate, which next sits in the week of 18 November 2024. It only sits for three days next week.
"Subject to passage by the Parliament, the Bill will commence from 1 July 2025. Should the Bill still be in the Parliament at the end of the 2024 sitting period, debate will resume in the 2025 sitting period," the spokesperson said.
