Santo Santoro (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I again repeat for the benefit of Senator McLucas and other senators that the complainants have been provided with a report of the findings. I cannot go beyond that. I do not know how clearly I have to say to Senator McLucas that I just simply cannot go beyond that. What I would urge Senator McLucas and Labor senators to do is desist from criticising, day after day, individual homes within the aged care sector. What happens in this case is that every time they make unfounded complaints against aged care facilities, as they have done this week, it is the residents, the relatives and the workers within those aged care facilities who are defamed and an alarm is set. Senator McLucas is hopefully the outgoing shadow minister, because I do not believe that she is fit to be that, given the campaign of smear and denigration of the industry. (Time expired)