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

I think the interjection from behind me is correct: don't always believe what you read in the newspaper. The decisions around the establishment of an aged-care response centre are made through the AHPPC. That is the decision-making process under the auspices of the national cabinet. It has been discussed at national cabinet now on two occasions—last Friday and a fortnight before that. The AHPPC has and does report to the health minister. So, in the context of an organisation that reports to the health minister in implementing our national COVID-19 health response, that's the decision-making line. So nothing has changed. It is as it always was. But I and my department play an important operational role in the oversight of all of those facilities, as I do in Victoria.