Labor is calling for the Prime Minister to remove Aged Care Minister richardmcolbeck amid backlash against the federal government’s aged care response to the coronavirus crisis.
Labor is calling for the Prime Minister to remove Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck amid backlash against the federal government’s aged care response to the coronavirus crisis. Shadow Ageing and Seniors Minister Julie Collins said Mr Colbeck was “losing public confidence and Australians need to know that the aged care minister is up to the job and frankly we don’t think he is at the moment”.
“To say that the missteps were that he didn’t have the figures on Friday I think is a bit of an understatement, the missteps are that we have 353 residents who have died in aged care facilities,” she said. “At the moment we’re getting these sort of half-hearted sorrys about things that have happened but we’re not getting very clear about what they did wrong and how they’re fixing it.
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