Senate debates

Thursday, 27 August 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:04 pm

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

The Labor Party this week have consistently taken my comments out of context in a deliberate attempt to portray what I said in a different way. As I said earlier, I was very deliberate with my comments this morning. Our circumstances in an international context are so much better than those overseas. That doesn't mean that the circumstances here aren't difficult, that the circumstances here aren't tragic or that the deaths that have been suffered are anything but tragic. It doesn't mean any of those things. But I am not going to—

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