Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition can seek to misrepresent those phrases as he chooses in this place, but he fails to understand the point that was being made. The Commonwealth is responsible for the regulation and funding of aged care and its clinical practices; that is true. That's what happens in aged-care facilities. What I was referring to was the broader responsibilities of state governments when it comes to the management of public health and pandemics.

When a state government is responsible for public health and pandemics, then they are responsible for how that applies to all aspects of what occurs in that state. That includes shopping centres, and that includes public health issues related, also, to aged-care facilities, hospitals, schools, community sporting facilities—any type of facilities that can occur.

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

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