Five bucks an hour raise may solve crisis in disability care

The Health Services Union are pushing the government to improve conditions for disability workers. Video by AAP

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00:00We need to attract tens of thousands of more disability support workers across the country

00:06in order to ensure that people with a disability have the appropriate supports that they need

00:12and also importantly have the choices of the workers that they want to support them.

00:19The Federal Albanese Government has done a terrific job in supporting

00:24aged care workers with wage increases and also supporting early childhood carers

00:32in the sector as well. But disability support workers have missed out.