Senate debates Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Aged Care


Murray Watt

Murray Watt Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia

2:31 pm

In damning reports issued in March and September last year, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission found that care at Jeta Gardens failed to meet aged-care quality standards, including the safety of residents' care and the facility's preparedness for a COVID-19 outbreak. Why did the minister fail to take urgent action last year in response to his own regulator's repeated findings of noncompliance?

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