Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Matters of Public Importance

COVID-19: Aged Care

4:24 pm

Photo of Slade BrockmanSlade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today 15 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot. As a result, I inform the Senate the following letter was received from Senator Bilyk:

Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:

The Morrison Government's failure to act in response to the Aged Care Royal Commission's Interim Report entitled 'Neglect' and the warnings from COVID-19 outbreaks in the Northern hemisphere, at Dorothy Henderson Lodge, at Newmarch House, resulting in the tragic and unnecessary deaths of 335 Australians in aged care.

Is the proposal supported?

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—

I understand that informal arrangements have been made to allocate specific times to each of the speakers in today’s debate. With the concurrence of the Senate, I shall ask the clerks to set the clock accordingly.

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