Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care

2:47 pm

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

She makes a very, very unfortunate and, I think, dishonest correlation between the circumstances at St Basil's—the government has acknowledged that, with 24 hours notice, we didn't have in place the staffing requirements to replace the entire staff of that facility, and there were some things that occurred there that we would have wished had not occurred.

The Labor Party seem to exist in this little local bubble where they don't understand that there is a global pandemic of COVID-19 occurring. There is significant community transmission of COVID-19 in Victoria. (Time expired)

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