Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. News Corp newspapers revealed in reports this morning that more than 100 older Australians are being raped, assaulted and even murdered in this minister's aged-care system every week, with more than 50,000 incidents of assault and abuse going unreported each year. Advocacy group Aged Care Crisis has found:

… aged care residents in nursing homes have been raped, robbed, bathed in kerosene, attacked by rodents, suffered injuries or death from other residents, burnt to death, strangled, cooked, melted, sedated to death, overmedicated or choked to death.

Is the minister going to ignore these warnings?