Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is the responsibility of this minister we're talking about, the minister who has no plan to keep residents safe, to keep them protected.

We have known about coronavirus for a long time now. We knew it was deadly. We knew that aged-care facilities were particularly vulnerable to outbreaks. But proper protections were not put in place by this minister or by this government. Proper protection was not afforded to the residents of aged care in this country. Proper protections were not put in place. Back in April we had our first aged-care outbreaks. Absolutely no lessons were learned, and Minister Colbeck did not act. There was no audit done of access to PPE.

Senator Van interjecting—