Senate Community Affairs References Committee (part 2 of 2)

22 September 2026

Senate Community Affairs References Committee Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:18
Speaker 3
Unpaid carers are not unwilling, but they are unsupported.  We implore you to rethink how carers can be better supported so that support at home achieves its policy intent for the benefit of Australian society.  Thank you. 
00:18 - 00:24
Speaker 1
Thanks, Ms. Cave.  And I'm going to go to Senator Gatenby to start us off with questions. 
00:24 - 00:58
Speaker 2
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Ms. Cave, for your opening statement and submission from Carers Australia.  I just wanted to go into a little bit more detail on a couple of the matters that you've raised. 

Support at Home, how has that affected unpaid family carers supporting older people at home?  You mentioned the increased workloads, I think it was 85% of people surveyed, their workloads had increased, lower well-being, more stress, an impact on workforce, and anywhere where it's more particularly acute that you've seen since the beginning of that program? 

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