Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Apologies. Why did the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and this minister not have a proper plan to deal with the loss of workforce in aged-care homes?

It is also, tragically, clear that the Morrison government's surge workforce has been inadequate to deal with outbreaks of coronavirus. We also found out that the Morrison government has spent just half of the money that it set aside for a surge workforce that was meant to assist aged-care homes impacted by coronavirus. This is completely unacceptable. The minister says that we're still learning and we're in discussions. He seems utterly incapable of the leadership required to acknowledge the damage this government has wrought in our aged-care sector and how a pandemic has served to reveal, deepen and shatter the structural cracks that were already undermining it, yet Mr Morrison says he has full confidence in this incompetent minister. (Time expired)

Question agreed to.