Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Questions without Notice

Aged Care

2:14 pm

Photo of Kristina KeneallyKristina Keneally (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The head of Monash University's Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Professor Joseph Ibrahim, told the royal commission:

… hundreds of residents are and will die prematurely, because people have failed to act.

Isn't this why the royal commission has characterised the Morrison government's handling of aged care with a single word: neglect?

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