Senate debates Questions without Notice

Aged Care


Richard Colbeck

Richard Colbeck Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services

2:25 pm

The surge workforce was not designed to fill every unfilled shift in aged care during COVID. It wasn't designed to do that. The advice that the government provided to aged-care providers right at the beginning of the pandemic was that they would be required to have some capacity themselves to manage vacancies and shift—

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