Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Throughout this pandemic the government has continued to work closely with the residential aged-care sector to provide them with information, with advice and with funding to assist them to mitigate the entry of COVID-19 into residential aged care and to assist them to deal with it if it does. We've done that on a consistent basis, and we will continue to do that. This morning we released the Newmarch report, which I provided directly to every single aged-care provider in the country. We've already implemented a lot of the learnings from Newmarch in our response in Victoria. We continue to do that, and we continue to work with residential aged-care providers across the country, including a decision out of national cabinet last Friday where we will be working, through the quality and safety commission, with states to visit every provider, commencing in Tasmania and Queensland, to ensure that their systems are up to speed. And, if we find an opportunity for improvement, we'll push for that. (Time expired)