Labor fumes over PM’s aged care comments

Labor denies it is taking comments by Malcolm Turnbull about aged-care workers out of context, fuming over the remarks and calling for an apology.
The opposition took umbrage when Mr Turnbull on Tuesday suggested aged-care workers could always aspire to “a better job” during income tax cut debate.
“We were there. We didn’t put the words in his mouth,” Labor leader Bill Shorten told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
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