Panic set in earlier this week as the government’s much-vaunted aged care reforms stalled. They were finally settled on a plane trip from Sydney to Canberra.
O n Tuesday night, the Albanese government was fretting that its much-vaunted aged care reforms were going to collapse.
After failing to reach agreement with the Coalition when parliament last sat in August, it feared that unless the deal was done this week, it would be all too late.
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