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

As I've said a number of times this week, the aged-care sector in Australia due to COVID-19, due to a global pandemic, is under severe stress. Nobody has tried to deny that. We have provided every single resource we possibly can. I'm not here to play word bingo with the Labor Party. I'm here to work with the aged-care sector to resolve the issues and to assist them to work their way through the pandemic.

While we work on the pandemic, the Labor Party play politics with the pandemic. That's what they do. They are playing politics with the pandemic. We are actively working on assisting the sector to work its way through the pandemic, providing them with the resources, whether it's surge workforce, whether it's PPE, whether it's rapid antigen tests—all of those things—to support the sector to get through the pandemic.