Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) in the third year of the pandemic, aged care remains in crisis, with almost 12,000 aged care residents and workers infected with COVID in more than 1,100 facilities as of Friday, and over 600 deaths among aged care residents this year;

(b) tens of thousands of aged care residents are still waiting for a booster dose;

(c) aged care facilities have been left without rapid antigen tests and PPE;

(d) aged care residents have been left without food, water and medical care because the Government's surge workforce strategy was inadequate; and

(e) despite aged care being in crisis, the Minister for Aged Care Services has declared the sector is performing exceptionally well; and

(2) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:

(a) immediately sack his Minister for Aged Care Services; and

(b) apologise to aged care residents and their families for his failure to listen and act on countless warnings about the continuing crisis in aged care.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving the following motion immediately:

That the House:

(1) notes:

(a) in the third year of the pandemic, aged care remains in crisis, with almost 12,000 aged care residents and workers infected with COVID in more than 1,100 facilities as of Friday, and over 600 deaths among aged care residents this year;

(b) tens of thousands of aged care residents are still waiting for a booster dose;

(c) aged care facilities have been left without rapid antigen tests and PPE;

(d) aged care residents have been left without food, water and medical care because the Government's surge workforce strategy was inadequate; and

(e) despite aged care being in crisis, the Minister for Aged Care Services has declared the sector is performing exceptionally well; and

(2) therefore calls on the Prime Minister to:

(a) immediately sack his Minister for Aged Care Services; and

(b) apologise to aged care residents and their families for his failure to listen and act on countless warnings about the continuing crisis in aged care.

This aged-care system is in crisis and this government is too distracted by its internal war to worry about—

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